International humanitarian aid organisation

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What is MSF?

• International humanitarian aid organisation
• Provides emergency medical relief to those who
  need it most in more than 60 countries worldwide
• First in and last out
• Treats most vulnerable

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• MSF works in over 65 countries
  worldwide

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MSF Emergency
Situations

• War
• Disease
• Famine
• Displacement
• Natural or man-made disaster

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Volunteers in the field

• Non-medical
• Logisticians
• Financial controllers
• Water/sanitation
• specialists
• Humanitarian law
• specialists
• Administrators

• Medical
• Doctors
• Anaesthetists
• Surgeons
• Paramedical
• Nurses
• Midwives
• Epidemiologists
• Lab techs
• Mental health specialists
• Nutritionalists

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Kampungu Kasaï Occidental Democratic Republic
of Congo Ebola Outbreak Sept-Oct 2007
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Ebola

• Virus
• Symptoms fever, sickness, bleeding
• 90 mortality
• Reservoir infected bats and monkeys
• Highly infectious
• Transmitted by contact with contaminated
  material
• No cure
• No vaccine

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Team

• 4 Doctors (1 an epidemiologist)
• 3 Nurses
• 3 Wat-San
• 2 Logistic/Sans
• 1 Field Coordinator
• 1 Admin/Finance
• 1 Anthropologist
• 1 Psychologist
• 1 Base Logistician

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Context

• Typhoid/Shigella detected
• Ebola tested positive
• 22 villages 20 - 40,000 people
• Extremely remote location
• Total lack of facilities
• Very low level of understanding

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WAT SAN Responsibilities

• Isolation Zone Set Up and operation
• Disposal of bodies
• Disposal of contaminated/medical material
• Disinfection of properties
• Training of local staff
• Suppression of Typhoid

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