Tag: Cholera

DRC: Half a million displaced and without clean drinking water

June 3, 2021

Hundreds of thousands of people have been left displaced, and over half a million in the city of Goma have been left without access to clean drinking water, following the eruption of Mount Nyiragongo in North Kivu province, Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC). While...

Cholera

February 6, 2019

Although easy to prevent and treat, cholera affects up to 4 million people worldwide per year, resulting in up to 140,000 deaths. Caused by a water-borne bacterial infection, cholera is transmitted through contaminated food or water, or through contact with...

An Indian doctor reflects on a year spent in Yemen

December 26, 2017

Nishith Kumar, a medical doctor from Bihar, recently returned from Yemen, a country ravaged by two and a half years of war. In this interview, he explains the impact it has had on patients, and how MSF teams dealt with...