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Mental healthcare in Maroua: an essential respite in a forgotten crisis

In Cameroon’s far north, local populations have suffered 10 years of conflict stemming from the Lake Chad Crisis. Since 2015, MSF has been providing medical humanitarian assistance to those affected. In Maroua hospital, MSF has been responding with nutritional care, emergency surgery and mental healthcare services. While the topic of mental health is little reported in Cameroon, the psychological effects of a decade long regional conflict that has encroached on people’s homes, livelihoods and physical security, cannot be underestimated. Last year, our medical teams provided approximately 5,000 mental health consultations to patients in the far north.

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