Four years in Maroua: an essential respite in a forgotten crisis (ENG)

The conflict between non-state armed groups and government forces in the Lake Chad region has been ongoing for 10 years. People in north-eastern Nigeria have borne the brunt of the violence, but those in neighbouring Cameroon are not spared. Today, there are more than 297,000 internally displaced persons and almost 114,000 Nigerian refugees living in Cameroon’s Far North, according to the International Organization for Migration (IOM) and UNHCR.

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Four years in Maroua: an essential respite in a forgotten crisis / Quatre ans à Maroua : un répit essentiel dans une crise oubliée

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Unique Identifier Code / URN MSB59721

Date taken / Date Recorded 11/03/2021 12:42 AM

Country Cameroon

Commissioning section MSF-SWITZERLAND

Photographer / videographer / producer Scott Hamilton

Usage Rights (MSF) External Media, MSF Fundraising, MSF Publications, Social Media

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Duration 3m0s

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Additional Information / Shotlist Hawa Haman 16 years old
It was a Wednesday afternoon and we were walking home from school when a car came.
Both my friend and I were hit.
We were taken to Maroua Regional Hospital.
I spent three days in the operating room (OR) before I woke up and realised where I was. I asked why I was in hospital but no-one told me anything.
Then I saw that my leg had been amputated.
Since 2016 Doctors Without Borders’ medical teams have provided emergency surgical care, psychological healthcare in Maroua District Hospital, in Cameroon’s far north.
Today, Doctors Without Borders is disengaging from Maroua hospital after the refurbishment of an intensive care unit and having trained new teams in the hospital.
In the Lake Chad region, many live in extreme poverty, and are subject to the violence of cross-border conflicts on a daily basis.
Substantial needs remain.
Many of the cases received in Maroua are due to domestic accidents, or traffic collisions.
Narounké Gédéon, 15 years old
I decided to go to Maroua to work so that I could pay for school.
Four days after I arrived, I burned myself.
Then was taken to Maroua Regional Hospital.
Narouké spent over two years being treated, and he has made enormous progress with his physiotherapy.
Doctors Without Borders’ goal in the Far North, is to ensure that more people have access to essential medical services, including treatment for malnutrition, malaria, diarrhoea, pneumonia, maternity care, and emergency trauma surgery. But there is still far more to be done.
I thank MSF because they helped me a lot. They gave me a prosthesis that lets me walk.
They also gave me crutches and I can move very well now
I can even walk 30 kilometres with them!
Since 2016, MSF has admitted 8,548 patients in Maroua alone,

performing 14,017 surgeries, and 8,221 mental health consultations.

To meet the continued needs, new activities have been launched in nearby Mora and Kolofata.