Sudan crisis: MSF teams deploy inflatable hospital to treat war-wounded

Published on August 7, 2023

In the Chadian border town of Adré, an influx of refugees has been arriving from the nearby conflict in Sudan.

 

More than 15,000 people came over just four days in June, and the numbers have continued to rise since then. Among them are hundreds of war-wounded people crossing at a time, each requiring essential medical aid and many in need of urgent trauma surgery. With the Médecins Sans Frontières / Doctors Without Borders (MSF)-supported hospital in Adré already overwhelmed, it was decided to deploy one of the most innovative pieces of life-saving kit available to our teams: an inflatable field hospital.

 

Last deployed in Nepal after the catastrophic 2015 earthquake...

 

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