Médecins Sans Frontières - Ad Dahi - influx of patients with AWD (webclip EN)

Unique Identifier Code / URN MSB142014

Date taken / Date Recorded 08/11/2022 2:34 PM

Country Yemen

Commissioning section MSF-SWITZERLAND

Photographer / videographer / producer Majd Aljunaid

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Additional Information / Shotlist Script Yemen – Ad-Dahi – November 2022

In Yemen, seven years of conflict has severely impacted the population.

In Ad Dahi rural area of Hodeidah governorate, many families are living in very basic homes or tents, struggling to afford food, water, or healthcare.

Since 2019, MSF has been working in collaboration with the Ministry of health, supporting emergency care, paediatric and neonatal care of the Ad-Dahi hospital. as well as responds to disease epidemics like measles, malaria and dengue fever.

Dr Druha Shamsuddin
MSF Medical Activity Manager

From the beginning of August this year, we noticed there is an increase in the number of acute watery diarrhoea, which could be related to the rainy season. Most of those cases are paediatric patients less than five years.

Ad-Dahi hospital has reached its full bed capacity.
MSF opened a diarrhoea treatment centre. 2,688 patients have been admitted so far.
Most of them were malnourished.

For the malnourished kids we received with acute watery diarrhoea, we treat the acute watery diarrhoea as current complications and then we refer them to the treatment feeding centres to continue the treatment there until they improve.

Accessing the facility on time is frequently a real challenge for the families,
because they don’t have the means to pay for the transportation to the hospital. That is why MSF has set an emergency referral system from the surrounding areas of Ad-Dahi,
to prevent complications due to delay.

Actually for all families, they should take medical advice once they notice that the child is sick and he or she is unable to drink well, or feeding well or refuse the food.

Any kind of diarrhoea, they have really to seek medical advice immediately and not wait at home or trying any remedies.

In November 2022, MSF added a therapeutic feeding centre in Ad Dahi hospital to take care of malnourished children.