MSF, Doctors Without Borders, MSF activities in Cameroon

Cameroon

Doctors Without Borders (MSF) provides emergency surgery for patients with violence-related injuries in Cameroon’s volatile Far North region. During 2024, we also responded to peaks in malaria and malnutrition, and severe flooding.

The ongoing conflict in the Lake Chad Basin continues to impact people in northern Cameroon, with many injured in repeated incursions by non-state armed groups and outbreaks of intercommunal violence.

In 2024, we strengthened our support for emergency surgery at Mora District hospital by rehabilitating the operating theatre.

Our activities in 2024 in Cameroon

 Data and information from the International Activity Report 2024.

MSF IN CAMEROON IN 2024 In 2024, Doctors Without Borders (MSF) is working in the Far North and Centre regions of Cameroon. Our teams work through the volatile situation in the Far North to assist the health authorities with treating malaria.
MSF, Doctors Without Borders, MSF activities in Cameroon

In Far North, we also focus on supporting community healthcare activities in areas where insecurity prevents people from accessing medical facilities. In these areas, we have trained community health workers to treat uncomplicated malaria and diarrhoea cases, screen children for severe acute malnutrition, and refer patients requiring specialist care to hospitals.

In response to the floods in Far North, which affected more than 365,000 people, we sent teams to Kai-Kai and Yagoua, where they conducted outpatient consultations, as well as screening and treatment for severe acute malnutrition. We also supported the routine vaccination programme, and organised awareness-raising campaigns to help prevent malaria and diarrhoeal diseases.

In the capital, Yaoundé, in Centre region, we launched a sustainable cholera prevention project to support the national plan to eradicate the disease. Our teams are working with the Ministry of Health to improve access to drinking water and sanitation services, and raise community awareness of preventive measures.

IN 2024

 
MSF Cultural Mediator Nejma helps a survivor on one of the Rigid Hull Inflatable Boats
International Women's Day

Tales of Women at Sea

Patient and Staff Stories 8 Mar 2023
 
MSF Flag Cameroon
Armed conflict

All MSF staff acquitted in military tribunal in Cameroon

Press Release 11 Jan 2023
 
MSF, Doctors Without Borders, Detained MSF colleagues provisionally released
Armed conflict

Colleagues detained in Cameroon provisionally released from prison

Press Release 20 May 2022
 
MSF, Doctors Without Borders, Cameroon, Suspension of activities and teams
Cameroon

Forced to withdraw teams from North-West region

Press Release 4 Aug 2021
 
St Mary Soledad Hospital in Bamenda the base of MSF's ambulance service in Cameroon's North-West Region, and a hospital where MSF teams provided specialised care. Cameroon, 2020
Access to Healthcare

Cameroon, North-West region: Denied access to healthcare

Press Release 23 Jun 2021
 
MSF teams respond to school shooting in Kumba, Cameroon
Cameroon

MSF teams responds to school shooting in Kumba

Press Release 26 Oct 2020