In Tonkolili district, Northern province, our teams continued to support 12 health care facilities by supplying medicines, completing rehabilitation work, providing water and sanitation services, and training medical staff. With our support, we aimed to reduce maternal and child deaths in Mile 91, Magburaka town and the surrounding villages. In 2024, we drilled seven boreholes in the district to ensure people have safe drinking water. In Magburaka government hospital, we continued to offer specialist care for pregnant women, lactating mothers, and children under the age of 5 as well as support the referral of patients in need of more advanced care from a general health care facility to the hospital.
In Bombali district, also in Northern province, MSF is working to improve access to diagnosis and treatment for both drug-sensitive and drug-resistant TB for adults and children. People who are at high risk of contracting TB are provided with preventive therapy through the country’s National Leprosy and Tuberculosis Control Program, of which MSF is supporting the rollout.
