Διεθνής Ετήσια Αναφορά Δράσης 2011

THE YEAR IN REVIEW 2011 was a year of multiple, complex, humanitarian emergencies, and almost all challenged our capacity to respond. Protracted war, drought and restricted access to medical assistance or relief all contributed to a worsening of the crisis across south-central Somalia. From May to December, Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF) treated more than 95,000 people for malnutrition and over 6,000 for measles in south-central Somalia and in refugee camps in Ethiopia and Kenya. We vaccinated almost 235,000 children against measles and held more than 450,000 consultations. Yet we still had enormous difficulties reaching the people we suspected to be in the greatest need. For the most part, we were limited to scaling up existing operations. In many places, we were blocked from opening new programmes, while in others, insecurity prevented us from expanding. On 13 October 2011, two of our colleagues, Blanca Thiebaut and Montserrat Serra, were abducted from one of the Somali refugee camps in Dadaab, Kenya. At the very end of the year, our colleagues Philippe Havet and Dr Andrias Karel Keiluhu were both killed while working in Mogadishu. Dedicated humanitarians, Philippe and Andrias had each worked for MSF for more than a decade.