Timbuktu, Mali 2013

Since MSF intervened in Timbuktu hospital in April, they have recorded 339 births, 77 by cesarian section. The maternity ward has 10 beds on Friday Feb. 1, 2013.

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Unique Identifier Code / URN MSF130980

Date taken / Date Recorded 01/02/2013 12:00 AM

Country Mali

Commissioning section MSF-FRANCE

Photographer / videographer / producer Trevor Snapp

Copyright Trevor Snapp

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Additional Information / Shotlist In Timbuktu, medical activities are on-going, particularly in pediatric, obstetrical, emergency, and surgical care. Over the past 20 days, MSF treated some 30 wounded patients at the Timbuktu hospital. Since January, medical teams on the ground have conducted some 9000 regular medical consultations in the region. Medical supplies and medicines have also been delivered to the nine health centers that MSF supports in the Timbuktu region.

MSF has been working in the Timbuktu region for more than 10 months and continues to handle large numbers of patients. In 2012, MSF conducted 50,000 medical consultations (approximately one-third of them for malaria), hospitalized 1,600 people, and performed more than 400 operations.