"I was really scared as I nearly died”

Jean, 31, can't remember how he arrived to the hospital.

"When I woke up lying in the treatment centre, I didn't know where I was or what had happened to me. I remember that I was working in the fields and that I was suffering from stomach pains, with diarrhoea and vomiting. Then I fainted" he recalls. "I was told that someone I didn't know had brought me here by motorbike to get treatment".

Jean is a maize farmer. In the past, he has already been treated in an hospital but has never experienced something like this: "I was really scared. I nearly died, but fortunately today I'm healed, and I'll be able to see my wife and my two children again" he confides.

Jean was taken into care for 5 days at the treatment centre set up in Rutshuru by MSF teams for suspected cases of cholera.