Mali

Doctors Without Borders/Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF) works across Mali to assist the most vulnerable people. We are responding to the growing crisis in the central region, providing health care to nomadic communities in the north and caring for cancer patients in Bamako, the capital. We also support nutrition and pediatric services in the southern Koutiala district.

Our teams are supporting the response to the COVID-19 pandemic in Mali.

MSF launched a range of COVID-19 activities, including infection prevention and control, screening, and treatment in some of the worst-hit areas of the country. In April, we installed a COVID-19 screening system at Timergara District Headquarters hospital in Lower Dir, to help protect against the virus and prevent it from spreading inside the facility to health care workers, patients, and their caregivers and, by extension, outside in the community. For six months, we also ran an isolation ward that, at the peak of the first wave of the outbreak in June 2020, had 30 beds for patients with suspected and confirmed COVID-19. Those requiring ventilator support were referred to specialist care facilities in Peshawar.