More images of the situation in the Katanga province in the south-east part of DRC.
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18/12/2006
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MSF mobile clinic site in one of the three IDP camps. The medical team ran mobile clinics in each of the camps. They were treating malaria and other illnesses, screening children for acute malnutrition, and vaccinating all the children against measles, sometimes as many as 600 in one day. In December 2005, more than 20,000 people fleeing fighting in the Democratic Republic of Congo's Katanga province, more than tripling the town's population. Doctors Without Borders/Medecins Sans Frontires (MSF) had been running a clinic in the town for more than a year prior to the arrival of the newly displaced people.
Displaced persons of the region have settled on islets on floating swamp zone of Lake Upemba. The sanitary conditions are very unhealthy. MSF opened an emergency programme in January 2006 to bring relief to thousands of families who had fled fighting and had found refuge around lake Upemba in Katanga. Almost 30 000 displaced people are living in this mosquito infested swamp land, around 15 000 of them were displaced during the last few months of 2005. MSF carries out basic health consultations in the village of Nyonga next to lake Upemba, and organises mobile health clinics in some of the more isolated areas. 5516 children were vaccinated against measles, and a distribution of relief items is being carried out for over 4000 families.
