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Nigeria: Fighting the worst meningitis C epidemic in nine years

Patients being admitted in the main hall of the meningitis treatment center run by MSF in Sokoto Mutalah Mohamad Hospital.

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Unique Identifier Code / URN MSF194335

Date taken / Date Recorded 23/04/2017 12:00 AM

Country Nigeria

Commissioning section MSF-NETHERLANDS

Photographer / videographer / producer Fabrice Caterini

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Maximum Size 2500px × 1670px 3.22 MB

Additional Information / Shotlist On April 8 MSF began to support the Ministry of Health and on April 15 MSF took over the management of its 200 beds to help reduce the mortality in the worst meningitis C epidemic recorded in the country in nine years. Since then, MSF staff has treated in this facility 614 patients. Most are between five and twenty years old.