Our teams have concluded technical and infrastructure assistance to health facilities in three other districts of the capital (Baskuy, Sig-Noghin, and Pissy). On the island of Lesbos, MSF operates an inpatient medical unit near the Moria reception center for patients who present symptoms similar to COVID-19 and potential positive cases, with the aim of detecting cases, safely isolating patients, and monitoring the medical condition and treatment of mild cases. MSF continues to provide pediatric care in Anka general hospital (with new criteria to reduce services to essential cases only) and is providing technical support in the hospital to establish isolation zones, IPC protocols, and adapted triage and patient flow systems. MSF is part of the case management and surveillance pillars at the national Emergency Operations Centre (EOC) and district level EOCs in Kenema, Tonkolili, and Bombali districts. There are 1,070 confirmed cases of COVID-19 in the country, and 58 people have died as of July 15 MSF continues to provide technical support at the city’s Military Hospital, run by the MoH, where COVID-19 patients are being treated. New activities with a focus on COVID-19 are currently underway in Timbuktu. It is the only maternal clinic in the city, so all patients are referred there for deliveries and prenatal care consultations. The Bombali COVID-19 treatment center in Makeni Regional Hospital is operational, with MSF providing logistical support for the initial setup. We are also stepping up health promotion activities and providing technical advice or logistical support to set up isolation structures. MSF teams worked with migrant farm workers in Florida; people experiencing homelessness in New York; Native Americans –particularly Navajo Nation and Pueblo peoples– in the southwestern states of New Mexico and Arizona; clinical and non-clinical staff in nursing homes in Michigan and Texas; and a range of people and communities in need in Puerto Rico. “We are now in an exponential situation," says Stephane Doyon, an operations manager for Doctors Without Borders, which last month opened a COVID-19 treatment center in Port-au-Prince. Some 5 percent will become critically ill. Sophisticated health care systems may be able to cure some critically ill patients, but the danger is that even the most advanced systems may be overwhelmed by the large numbers of people who will need to be hospitalized. We had to suspend mobile clinics, but patients can still reach us through our phone hotline. We also set up a triage and isolation circuit for alert cases in nine health centers in the city of Maroua, trained teams on standard hygiene rules and IPC, and donated materials. In Siblin, in southern Lebanon, MSF is runs the medical services of the UNRWA’s Siblin Isolation Site. In all projects, MSF has put in place all necessary preventative measures to mitigate the risk of our facilities becoming part of the chain of transmission. In Mumbai, MSF has scaled up COVID-19 training among staff working on drug-resistant tuberculosis (DRTB), HIV, and COVID-19 projects. We also continue to support emergency, surgical, and inpatient activities at Raqqa National Hospital and a separate outpatient clinic inside Raqqa city. An MSF-managed health center in a neighborhood on the outskirts of the city is still operating and is prepared to detect COVID-19 cases. Children so far seem to be less affected by the disease. As we get ready to enter the seasonal malaria peak, our priority is now to lay the groundwork for these campaigns, which will have to be carried out in accordance with COVID-19 prevention measures (door-to-door when possible, and with strict IPC measures when it’s not). In Rann, MSF continues to provide community-based health promotion services and will start round-trip visits for medical consultations. In the Centre (Ségou, Niono, Tenenkou, Ansongo, Douentza, Koro), in the South (Koutiala) and North (Kidal and Ansongo) of the country, we strengthened hygiene and IPC measures and set up isolation areas in MSF-supported hospitals and health centers. In addition, MSF mobile teams supported 50 health structures in four health zones in Kinshasa to reinforce hygiene measures, provide masks and handwashing stations, and train medical staff and community relays on infection prevention and control. Northeastern Syria: MSF is part of the COVID-19 humanitarian taskforce chaired by local health authorities in northeastern Syria. We support the Hôpital Général in triage, safer patient flow, and IPC, and set up a systematic triage service at Jamot Hospital. We are posting health education messages through social media channels and supporting health education for individuals with TB in Karakalpakstan and shared COVID-19 and TB messaging with the MoH and the UN to increase the reach. More specifically, we are working to infection-proof four main hospitals in Kadamjay Rayon, not only through advice and training in line with robust infection prevention guidelines, but also by providing disinfectants and PPE for health staff. As COVID-19 has spread, MSF teams are racing to respond to the pandemic in the more than 70 countries in which we run programmes, while opening projects in new countries as they become pandemic hotspots. We also trained community health workers and reinforced COVID-19 screening at the entrance of the Mora district hospital. We also are dealing with the consequences of global shortages of medical supplies, in particular personal protective equipment for health care staff. In Hajjah governorate we are helping with preventive measures in hospitals, including the set-up of screening points for patients and support to set up an isolation unit in Abs hospital, as well as training of staff on symptoms and case definition, case management, and IPC. by Reuters Thursday, 20 August 2020 22:05 GMT . In Goma, we ended support of the COVID-19 treatment center in Munigi, previously used as an Ebola Treatment Centre, and handed over its activities to MoH teams. The MSF Myanmar Facebook page has started an awareness and engagement campaign, focusing on the dissemination of COVID-19 prevention and health promotion messages, reaching 1.7 million clicks in the last month. Since April 27 MSF teams have been treating COVID-19 patients at Saint-Joseph hospital in Limete, Kinshasa, in support of the Diocesan Medical Office, the MoH, and in coordination with the COVID-19 national response team. A health team from Doctors Without Borders has been dispatched to the Navajo Nation to help the tribe’s struggle with a rate of coronavirus infections that’s higher than any state in America. Dr. Africa Stewart, an organization director, joined LX News to talk about the importance of making sure a solution to the pandemic is available to everyone who needs it around the world. At the MSF hospital in Bar Elias, COVID-19 activities are still on stand-by and elective surgeries have resumed. Teams are also doing health education in communities on a daily basis. By January 8, COVID-19 had killed more than one million people. In each of these places we are also focusing a large part of our efforts on health promotion and prevention activities in towns, villages, and neighborhoods through different community strategies and the media. Yahoo is part of Verizon Media. In Taiz governate we have adapted IPC measures and patient and triage flows to protect staff and patients in our Mother and Child hospital in Taiz Houban. We have started a wide-scale distribution of hygiene products that targets 8,000 families in IDP camps in north Idlib. MSF is also doing health promotion in camps for migrants and asylum seekers and increasing the provision of water and sanitation services. On any given day, our staff treats tens of thousands of patients for a variety of illnesses in our medical programs around the world. Our objective is to significantly raise the level of care for severe COVID-19 patients and relieve the pressure on the existing COVID-19 management center—Shaidayee and Liberty hospitals—which are increasingly overwhelmed. This makes it much harder to get a good picture of the way it’s spreading. Regular MSF activities have been suspended in both Manila and Marawi. We also provided extra drugs to HIV and NCD patients. In Sao Paulo, we run an 8-bed ICU at Tide Setubal hospital. MSF assessed and implemented IPC in migrant shelters across Mexico City and in shelters in Tijuana, Baja California; Ciudad Juarez, Chihuahua; Tapachula, Chiapas; Tierra Blanca, Coatzacoalcos, and Oluta, Veracruz; Huehuetoca, State of Mexico; and in Monterrey, Nuevo Leon, Saltillo, Ciudad Acuña, Coahuila, Piedras Negras, Sonora, Tenosique, and Nuevo Laredo. The claim: Doctors Without Borders is dispatching physicians to the US. A health sensitization intervention in Thompson Bay Slum area in Freetown will start mid-July, focusing on disseminating COVID-19 prevention messages and other basic health messages as the pandemic has resulted in a drop in regular consultations. In Tripoli, MSF continues providing medical and humanitarian assistance to migrants and refugees in one detention center, while other facilities have been emptied or closed. Thanks to Omer, our Médecins Sans Frontières / Doctors Without Borders (MSF) driver, our team arrived in Al-Kindy teaching hospital (currently a COVID-19 treatment centre) after a one-hour commute from the MSF guest house. In Agok, MSF modified an ambulance to be used to transport confirmed and suspected COVID-19 cases and work on an isolation ward is ongoing. There have been nearly 80 million cases reported so far—and many more go undocumented. There is a gap in psychosocial care in Sierra Leone. MSF has helped distribute nearly 30,000 PPE, conducted IPC training to staff at 22 facilities, provided 5,100 hygiene kits, and is continuing to provide hand hygiene and COVID-19 health education workshops to high-risk groups. MSF is now operating its mental health project remotely, talking to patients on the phone and providing two-month drug supplies when necessary. On the TV news, you’d watch reports on various non-pandemic-related topics. Immokalee, Florida, June 26, 2020—Doctors Without Borders/Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF) has completed the handover of its COVID-19 testing and public health program for farmworkers in Immokalee, Florida, to the county health department and local organizations. In August, MSF took its infection-control training and wellness support model for nursing homes to Texas. In Laylan camp, Kirkuk governorate, we are mobilizing a 20-bed caravan isolation and treatment facility and continue to implement triage measures for any suspected COVID-19 patients and raise awareness about prevention measures. During the distribution, basic health education on precautions against COVID-19 will be conducted by MoH nurses using informational materials on TB and COVID-19 developed by MSF. When COVID-19 arrived in the United States, MSF responded by working in key sites around the country in tandem with local authorities and/or partner organizations that serve vulnerable people who often lack access to healthcare. In Kamrangirchar urban slum, MSF has reduced regular activities to focus resources on our main clinic, where we continue to provide sexual and reproductive health services care for victims of sexual and gender-based violence, as well as health promotion for COVID-19. In addition to the overall support and technical advice given to the national COVID-19 response mechanism, we continue COVID-19-related health promotion work and we are currently discussing how to support the MoH decentralization and community integration process by reinforcing surveillance and early detection of cases. MSF supported the rehabilitation of the hospital’s oxygen network and provides medical, nursing, and hygiene control staff as well as logistical and technical support. We also started support activities in Guediawaye district, a northern suburb of Dakar, on surveillance, community engagement, and IPC standards at health facilities. In partnership with local health authorities in Eshowe, we set up 35 medicine pickup points in communities. Note: MSF teams are responding to the coronavirus pandemic in the more than 70 countries where we run existing programs, as well as opening projects in other countries that have become outbreak hotspots.This is a selective list of projects specifically related to MSF’s COVID-19 response, as of July 20, 2020. More than 241,000 people have died from coronavirus nationwide -- a number that is rapidly growing every day. The team has moved to the coastal Esmeraldas province in the northwest, where cases are rapidly rising. While they will leave some supplies behind, it’s a blow to efforts to ensure proper COVID-19 care in a vulnerable area. All patients are now screened for COVID-19 at the entrance of our health clinics and hospital. In Lankien, renovations have been completed to the COVID-19 isolation area tent and construction of a mortuary and a maternity delivery room in the COVID-19 isolation areas is ongoing. Many of these concerned the humanitarian situation in Idlib province, in northwest Syria. In Lubumbashi, MSF maintains a dedicated COVID-19 structure with a 20-bed capacity, which was constructed near the airport. Our health promotion teams reached about 10,000 people with sensitization activities led in the community. In Mariinka Rayon, Donetsk region, an MSF mobile team provides screening and home-based care for people suspected of having COVID-19 and those with mild symptoms in order to prevent health facilities from being overwhelmed. In Zahle, MSF set up tents outside the Elias Hraoui Governmental Hospital for triage and screening of children. In Delhi, MSF continues to run the Umeed Ki Kiran (UKK) clinic providing comprehensive medical and psychosocial care to survivors of sexual and gender-based violence in the Jahangirpuri neighborhood, a major hotspot for COVID-19. One of Doctors Without Borders’ answer is What Can You Do About COVID-19?, a children’s activity book with artwork by internationally published author and artist Elbert Or. Given the current problems with the supply of masks, gloves, and other personal protective equipment, the needs of health care staff should be prioritized. As MSF scales up its response to the COVID-19 pandemic, we … The virus can spread from person to person, including by people who appear to have no symptoms. In Borno state, MSF continues to provide technical and material support to the MoH COVID-19 isolation center in Maiduguri with staff training, the establishment of a patient flow system, and the management of certain IPC protocols, including the laundry system. In Dora, a northern suburb of Beirut, MSF launched a medical helpline to provide medical support and assistance to migrant communities. Our HIV program as well as mental health activities have been adapted to reduce the frequency of patients’ visits by increasing ARV and mental health treatment supplies. One mobile team continues to support care homes, with IPC measures, organisation of care, and psychosocial support for both residents and staff. We also did health promotion in two IDP centers in Metuge. In most countries where MSF works, we are coordinating with the WHO and the respective Ministries of Health to see how MSF could help in case of a high load of COVID-19 patients. Our harm reduction services in Maputo have been adapted to reduce the risk of exposure to COVID-19 for our patients, notably by providing methadone in take-home doses. The mortality rates vary significantly from place to place. There were more than 88 million cases of the coronavirus around the world—with more cases in the United States (21.6 million) than in any other country. So far, the COVID-19 situation in northeastern Syria has notdeteriorated at the rate we initially feared. Regular tuberculosis activities have been suspended. In the state of Mato Grosso do Sul, we are running mobile clinics in indigenous areas near the towns of Aquidauana and Anastacio. In some we have also set up hygiene committees, provided additional staff, and made donations of PPE when needed. And we have distributed over 4,500 masks to protect patients with NCDs and existing complications in the region. At Al-Kuwait we offer a full package of hands-on support to the MoH, including treating the most severely ill patients in the 15-bed intensive care unit and in the large inpatient department. In Port-au-Prince, our teams have also supported the Chancrelles hospital in Cité Soleil, the Saint Michel health center in Martissant, and the State University hospital of Haiti in implementing IPC measures, triage, and isolation. Nursing home deaths make up more than 30 percent of the state’s total coronavirus fatalities since March. Ongoing support related to routine vaccinations continues in Kobane. We still provide general medical care, along with COVID-19 screening and testing capacities, for people living in the streets and precarious settings in Paris region via mobile clinics. A 24-bed isolation ward has also been established. If you wish to do so or have any questions, please contact us at (888) 392-0392 or donations@newyork.msf.org. ‘I saw the need’: Doctors Without Borders fights COVID in Houston nursing homes By Emily Foxhall, Staff writer 9/10/2020 U.S. COVID-19 cases cross 11 million as pandemic intensifies As of July 21, the COVID-19 treatment center had admitted 34 patients (30 confirmed and 4 suspected). In Penang, we are providing COVID-19 health education in different languages, including Rohingya and Burmese, and translations in hospitals. Avoid crowded places and large gatherings, and generally keep some physical distance between you and other people. Across the seven states where MSF works in Nigeria we are providing technical support to the MoH and Nigeria Center for Disease Control (NCDC) as they set up isolation centers for patients who present symptoms of COVID-19, as well as with contact tracing, community-based health promotion activities, and setting up handwashing points and isolation areas in local communities and IDP camps. We also provide psychological support through phone hotlines to residents of Mariinka and Volnovakha Rayons. Recreational activities for HIV-positive and negative teenagers in Arua and in Kasese are on standby. By entering in your mobile telephone number and checking the box above, you agree to receive SMS notifications from Doctors Without Borders short code 96329. By the end of July, MSF aims to start the distribution of food packages and hygiene kits to multidrug and extensively drug-resistant TB patients currently on treatment in the Arkhangelsk Region in northern Russia. In HaydanandKhamerwe have set up COVID-19 treatment centers to take care of moderate cases and have begun admitting small numbers of patients with symptoms resembling those of COVID-19. In response to the unprecedented challenges presented by the COVID-19 pandemic, Doctors Without Borders/Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF) began working in key sites across the United States to reach vulnerable groups that often lack access to health care. In Beira we assisted in the installation of two isolation centers, 24 de Julho (100 beds) and Marazul (33 beds) and provide support for the follow-up of HIV patients with COVID-19 at the emergency isolation unit of the main hospital. The COVID-19 pandemic is still not under control, and has created significant challenges for our medical work ar... ound the world. From mid-March, MSF shifted its operational priorities to help draft IPC and clinical care management guidelines. In the Mathare informal settlements, teams are providing mental health consultations to survivors of sexual and gender-based violence by phone to continue providing adequate care throughout the pandemic. MSF’s international medical programs are impacted by the current travel restrictions, which limit our ability to move staff between countries. As the number of cases continues to increase we are expanding the isolation ward to 24 beds. We will continue reinforcing health promotion activities and the investigations of new cases of fever in health facilities and in the community, as we expect more cases. In Choloma, the sexual and reproductive health project is still open, with some limitations. We continue to pursue awareness-raising efforts as well through sensitization activities on the radio and community health workers and we conducted a survey of knowledge, attitude, practice, belief, and emotions of the population with regard to COVID-19. We are also carrying out health promotion activities in the camps. In response to the COVID-19 pandemic, MSF ran temporary operations in the United States from April to October.MSF recognized that there was a clear need for more support for the response to the outbreak in the US. Message and … MSF has carried out COVID-19 screening of DRTB and HIV patients in its private independent clinic and in an outpatient department co-managed with India’s national TB program. In April, seven suspected cases were admitted to MSF’s isolation facility. In the camps where we intervene we are spreading awareness messages and distributing non-food items and hygiene kits. MSF is providing mental health care in an isolation center dedicated solely to people deported from Mexico and the US while evaluating others for possible intervention. The hope is that IPC and wellness training MSF has begun in its nursing home programs can continue throughout the state and nationwide. In the MSF-supported Al Gumhouri Hospital (Hajjah city), the referral facility for the governorate, our teams supported the setup of a COVID-19 isolation center. The novel coronavirus is exploding across the U.S. with states like California and Texas reporting more than a … As a mitigation measure for the spread of COVID-19, patients with NCDs have been provided medicine for three months in Embu county, where MSF supports the five county-level hospitals with triage and screening of patients and boosting IPC in 11 health facilities. We have visited around one-third of the facilities designated to treat COVID-19 patients in Zhytomyr and have launched telephone hotlines to provide psychological support for both health workers and COVID-19 patients. On July 17 a decision was made to decrease capacity from 60 beds to 30 beds due to progressively lower admission numbers both in our partner hospital and across the Western Cape province. In cooperation with a team of the Basque health authorities in Spain we are treating severely ill patients in the hospitals of Tarapoto, Huánuco and Tingo María while also providing support to primary health centres in the provinces of Datem de Marañón and Condorcanqui through donations and training. Over the summer, MSF did qualitative research on the mental wellbeing of residents of care homes. We could not have done this without our supporters. In Taiz city,we continue to support lifesaving activities in three hospitals in addition to providing training on IPC, screening, triage, and identification of COVID-19 cases. MSF is working with local authorities in many of the countries where we have medical projects to help prepare for the impact of COVID-19. Protecting patients and health care workers affected by the pandemic is essential. We will help develop triage questions, improve patient flow, and offer health promotion for individuals awaiting their examination. A small team from the international humanitarian medical aid organization Doctors Without Borders has been in Immokalee for the past few weeks assisting with the local response to COVID-19.. Doctors Without Borders normally operates in about 60 countries around the world, often ones that are famine-stricken or war torn. In preparation for a potential COVID-19 outbreak in the camp, MSF built four triage/isolation areas at each of its health clinics and completed preparation for a main isolation center at the MSF hospital, where suspected cases of COVID-19 will be referred. I got off the minibus and collected my personal protective equipment (known as PPE). We installed an oxygen generator, which is essential to provide adequate care to patients with severe respiratory disease. Together with MoH community-level and contact tracing activities in Bamako, we set up handwashing stations and provide locally produced cloth masks and soap in the most at-risk locations (where a case has been confirmed, for example). In Guerrero, MSF teams resumed mobile clinics providing primary health care and psychosocial support to victims of violence. In South Kivu, MSF established isolation centers in Baraka hospital, Kimbi hospital, and Nyange Heath Center for suspected COVID-19 patients, with a total capacity of 80 beds and mental health support for patients. In Samos and Lesbos, we adapted our facilities and procedures to ensure the safety of patients and our staff. In Aden, MSF was running COVID-19 treatment centers at Al Amal and Al Gamhuriah hospitals. A key priority is to keep our other essential medical programs running in the midst of this new emergency. Many of the COVID-19 vaccines and treatments currently being developed have been … On February 11, the World Health Organization named the disease caused by the new coronavirus: COVID-19. Our pediatric hospital in Monrovia (BJH) has been adapted with IPC measures. In spite of its community testing strategy (more than 200,000 people tested) Uganda has reported a low number of confirmed cases (1,043 as of July 14) and no COVID-19 deaths. MSF teams are raising awareness on the ground via health promoters and through community radio. COVID-19 is demonstrating how policy decisions of social exclusion, reduced access to free healthcare and increased inequality will now be felt by all of us. Beyond Tripoli, we continue to work in four detention centers (in Khoms, Zliten, Zintan, and Zuwara) to provide first aid to people disembarked in Libya and primary health care and referrals to migrants and refugees in Bani Walid. Our cervical cancer program in Blantyre has also been limited to admitting urgent cases. Coronavirus: Iran expels Doctors Without Borders team, rejects aid Cabinet members wearing face masks and gloves attend their meeting in Tehran, Iran, … More than 23,000 residents of 1,093 nursing homes across Texas have tested positive for COVID-19. They also conduct assessments and provide guidance and support to medical teams and positive patients in isolation sites. We are also supporting the MoH to set up and manage isolation centers in East Darfur, South Kordofan, and Gedaref states. MSF is carrying out health promotion in slum areas, distributing mask and soap distribution to TB and DRTB patients at high risk, patients on antiretroviral therapy for HIV, and street vendors. As COVID-19 has spread, MSF teams are racing to respond to the pandemic in the more than 70 countries in which we run programmes, while opening projects in new countries as they become pandemic hotspots. In Marawi a mobile information drive has been launched to communicate health promotion messaging to vulnerable populations. The COVID-19 global health crisis continues to hold the world firmly in its grip. MSF teams trained more than 500 health workers on IPC procedures and conducted psychosocial support sessions. Staff have established IPC measures at all work sites. Cases of COVID-19 continue to increase, with over 2,100 confirmed patients in the country as of July 10, including in MSF facilities and project areas in Yambio, Agok, Yei, Lankien, and the Bentiu and Malakal protection of civilians (PoC) sites, as well as in Malakal town. Our COVID-19 response plan includes assisting with medical supplies and staff recruitment as well as strengthening triage, diagnosis, treatment, IPC, and more in Amazonas, Anzoátegui, Bolívar, Sucre, and the Capital District. The teams implemented IPC measures and provided training sessions, including for health promotion, for both MoH and MSF staff and private caregivers. We participate in the Mozambica Government COVID-19 coordination meetings and technical groups providing advice on the response in the country and facilitating access to updated evidence for the latest COVID-19 protocols. 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