Last week, on the 24th August the MSF 35-bed DTC was fully occupied with patients severely dehydrated therefore the centre’s capacity was extended to 75 beds. . During the week more human resources were brought from other projects in the north to reinforce the response. However more patients are coming or being referred by MSF ambulance from neighbouring health centres, so we may have to extend once again the capacity of the DTC to 100 beds.

In this DTC MSF currently receives 150 patients a day, 45 of whom are hospitalised in the DTC. In total 1,138 patients were treated for watery diarrhoea last week (338 were severe and 446 were children under five years of age). There are also increasing cases of malaria seen in triage presenting with fever.. Occasionally severely malnourished children are also seen and treated with therapeutic feeding although these are very small numbers.