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palliative care & oncology service in Bamako

Mali 2020 © Paul Lorgerie

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An upsurge in armed conflict and intercommunal violence in the first half of 2020 in central Mali, resulted in more than 2,840 deaths, and forced thousands of people to flee their homes.

Our work in Mali

Access to medical care remains very limited in the north and center of Mali due to a lack of medical staff and supplies and spiraling violence between armed groups. Access to medical care remains very limited in the north and center of Mali due to a lack of medical staff and supplies and spiraling violence between armed groups.

MSF project in Douentza

What's happening in 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 project in Douentza

How we're helping 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.

We also worked with the Ministry of Health to treat severe COVID-19 patients in Bamako and supported the response to the pandemic across the country, while maintaining our focus on cancer care and pediatric services. In 2020, we expanded our work in oncology by facilitating early screening and diagnosis of cervical and breast cancer in the capital and providing treatment, including surgery and chemotherapy.

MSF continued to respond to epidemics in the country, such as outbreaks of Crimean-Congo hemorrhagic fever in Douentza, and measles in Timbuktu, Ansongo, and Douentza. In Timbuktu, we launched a large-scale measles vaccination campaign. The seasonal peak of malaria was particularly virulent in 2020, especially in northern Mali, due to heavy rains and delays in the implementation of prevention campaigns. We maintained our support for nutrition and pediatric services in Koutiala district and launched an emergency project in Timbuktu to assist with testing and treating people for malaria.

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How we're helping in 2020

510,900

Outpatient consultations

459,300

Routine vaccinations

193,100

Malaria cases treated

1,700

Children admitted to outpatient feeding programs for severe acute malnutrition

1,243

Staff in 2020 (full-time equivalent)

1992

Year MSF first worked in the country

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