"Niger - Set up of a free access program to medical care" (by Tommaso Barsali)

#1 Dakoro, health center. Free access to health care for children 0-5 and pregnant women. Day one, with more than a hundred visits and thirty hospitalizations

Fri, 07 Dec 2007 20:59:41 +0000

#1 Dakoro, health center. Free access to health care for children 0-5 and pregnant women. Day one, with more than a hundred visits and thirty hospitalizations
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#2Dakoro district. Free transport from health centers towards Dakoro hospital represents a first step to give real access to care

Fri, 07 Dec 2007 20:59:24 +0000

#2Dakoro district. Free transport from health centers towards Dakoro hospital represents a first step to give real access to care
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#3 Dakoro. Therapeutic Feeding Center. Dehydration and malnutrition make finding venous ways impossible

Fri, 07 Dec 2007 20:59:18 +0000

#3 Dakoro. Therapeutic Feeding Center. Dehydration and malnutrition make finding venous ways impossible
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#4 Dakoro, pediatric ward. Abdou Salaam, deeply burnt, while preparing himself for an injection before bandages change.

Fri, 07 Dec 2007 20:58:44 +0000

#4 Dakoro, pediatric ward. Abdou Salaam, deeply burnt, while preparing himself for an injection before bandages change.
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#5 Dakoro, pediatric ward. Some weeks only after the program had begun the ward had to be extended to face the unexpected number of pediatric pathological cases.

Fri, 07 Dec 2007 21:01:26 +0000

#5 Dakoro, pediatric ward. Some weeks only after the program had begun the ward had to be extended to face the unexpected number of pediatric pathological cases.
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Dakoro hospital, emergencies ward. The operating theatre reopened by MÃ©decins Sans FrontiÃ¨res.

Fri, 07 Dec 2007 21:03:45 +0000

Dakoro hospital, emergencies ward. The operating theatre reopened by MÃ©decins Sans FrontiÃ¨res.
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#8 Alforma, health center. Msf staff measuring children to determine malnutrition degree.

Fri, 07 Dec 2007 21:04:25 +0000

#8 Alforma, health center. Msf staff measuring children to determine malnutrition degree.
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#10 Dakoro, delivery room. Mother feeding her newborn. Colostrum (first milk) is tremendously important for the early development.

Fri, 07 Dec 2007 21:06:32 +0000

#10 Dakoro, delivery room. Mother feeding her newborn. Colostrum (first milk) is tremendously important for the early development.
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#11 Dakoro, pediatric ward. A midwife holding one of the very few children born at an optimum weight.

Fri, 07 Dec 2007 21:07:15 +0000

#11 Dakoro, pediatric ward. A midwife holding one of the very few children born at an optimum weight.
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#12 Dakoro, pediatric ward. Market day. Niger ethnical groups (hausa, peul, songhai e tuareg) live together in peace.

Fri, 07 Dec 2007 21:08:01 +0000

#12 Dakoro, pediatric ward. Market day. Niger ethnical groups (hausa, peul, songhai e tuareg) live together in peace.
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#13 Dakoro, Therapeutic Feeding Center. Sandstorm announcing rainy season.

Fri, 07 Dec 2007 21:08:35 +0000

#13 Dakoro, Therapeutic Feeding Center. Sandstorm announcing rainy season.
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#14 Dakoro, Therapeutic Feeding Center. Traditional dance improvised by mothers the day before leaving the center, after some days, in a few case weeks, spent there with their children. They have now reached sufficient weight to continue treatment at home with ready to use food.

Fri, 07 Dec 2007 21:09:29 +0000

#14 Dakoro, Therapeutic Feeding Center. Traditional dance improvised by mothers the day before leaving the center, after some days, in a few case weeks, spent there with their children. They have now reached sufficient weight to continue treatment at home with ready to use food.
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#15 Sabon Matchi. Health center. Nurses and paramedical staff during work hours, when access to health care was still paying.

Fri, 07 Dec 2007 21:10:46 +0000

#15 Sabon Matchi. Health center. Nurses and paramedical staff during work hours, when access to health care was still paying.
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