Médecins Sans Frontières - Kala azar outbreak in Ethiopia

Unique Identifier Code / URN MSB152408

Date taken / Date Recorded 17/03/2023 11:40 AM

Country Ethiopia

Commissioning section MSF-BELGIUM

Photographer / videographer / producer Julien Dewarichet

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Additional Information / Shotlist Bicolshe at Jinka hospital

- “We don’t know where it comes from, but it kills a lot of people.”

Samakaoulu Kumuhuli DATA
Mursi tribe

- “I lost two wives and five kids. They died because of this disease.”

Hiwot Melak, MSF doctor

“Kala azar or visceral leishmaniasis, as we call it, is a parasitic infection. Especially the type of kala azar that we have in Ethiopia is through a bite of an infected fly called sandfly. Patients come with a huge swelling of their spleen, liver with fever and also malnutrition and sometimes even bleeding because their bone marrow is affected. It's also among the neglected tropical diseases which can cause a 95% of fatality if not treated. You can understand the urgency of finding these cases and putting them on treatment.

We had the information that the number of cases in this zone, in the South Omo zone, was increasing.

Our mobile clinic is looking for these people and also tries to find visceral leishmaniasis cases in the community."

Tamirat Bantule, MSF doctor

“Now we're setting up the mobile clinic, so we have two consultations for two doctors. We have a laboratory and a pharmacy and wound care if there is a wound dressing needed.

Samakaoulu Kumuhuli Data
Mursi tribe

“I’m going to tell you something. We suffer a lot. Many people died. People still alive will die because of hunger. There is nothing to eat. Only the wild leaves to eat. This is what makes us worried.”

Tamirat Bantule, MSF doctor

“This is the important thing because these people haven't had any medical service previously. It is the first time for most them, even the ones as old as 60, 70 years old. This is an important thing for us. And an even more important thing for them."

Hiwot Melak, MSF doctor

"So that comes to the second pillar of our activity, which is based at Jinka hospital. This is a general hospital. We have our own separate ward, which did not exist before MS F arrived.
We take care of visceral leishmaniasis or kala-azar patients."

Bicolshe at Jinka hospital

“My son was sick for a long time, but he refused to die. I decided to take him to the mobile clinic. The doctors referred us to the hospital, here. He got treated. At first, I thought he would die but he made it."

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Kala azar outbreak in Ethiopia | WEBCLIP LONG 16/9 ENG

Kala azar outbreak in Ethiopia | WEBCLIP LONG 16/9 ENG