MSF to return to South Darfur’s Kalma camp

Doctors Without Borders/Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF) Belgium will resume work at the Kalma camp for the displaced in South Darfur. “A delegation of MSF-Belgium, headed by the Deputy Director, met with Kalma camp elders, women and youth leaders on Wednesday morning. They notified us that they will soon resume their operations at the camp”, Saleh Eisa, Secretary-General of Kalma camp, reported to Radio Dabanga. MSF staff had conducted a two-day survey last week to assess the needs of the 163,000 camp residents in terms of water, health, and sanitation. “They also discussed the situation with the American Refugee Committee, and the International Medical Corps operating at the camp.”  MSF-Belgium was expelled by the government in 2009. On Tuesday, Eisa told Radio Dabanga that the displaced of the camp are living in extremely dire humanitarian conditions. “People are starving because the food rations were cut. Because they are weak already, they are prone to all kinds of diseases. There is a shortage of clean drinking water, health services are lacking, and the overall insecurity in the locality worsens the situation.” File photo: An MSF staff member provides emergency medical care to Darfuri refugees in Chad, August 2013 (MSF) Related:‘Starving displaced need protection’: South Darfur camp head (15 July 2014)MSF team denied access to South Darfur camp (2 July 2014)