Our teams have just completed an exploratory mission in Eastern Chad, in the Oure-Cassoni and Tine areas, on the Sudanese border.
The aim was to assess the urgent needs of refugees who had fled the violence in Sudan, and to prepare a suitable medical response.
An unprecedented humanitarian crisis
Sudan is going through an unprecedented humanitarian crisis, the worst in the world according to the UN since the start of a new civil war in the spring of 2023. Extreme violence has reached a peak in recent days in al-Fasher, following the capture of the town after a year and a half of siege, leading to mass executions, rapes and the destruction of vital infrastructure, including a maternity hospital that claimed 460 victims. These events forced tens of thousands more families to flee to Chad, where living conditions are already extremely precarious.
Urgent needs identified
Initially, our teams identified priority needs:
- primary health and maternal health,
- care for survivors of sexual violence,
- nutrition and vaccination,
- access to water and sanitation.
These areas are particularly isolated, and no local health structure is capable of responding to the massive influx of refugees on its own. Families arrive exhausted, often without food or shelter, and children, pregnant women and vulnerable people are in immediate distress.
This project, Mehad’s first on the African continent, is part of our ongoing commitment to work as close as possible to people affected by crises, where access to healthcare is collapsing. But for this to happen, your support is essential:
