In late March 2024, severe flooding forced more than 43,000 people from their homes, and take shelter in 30 internally displaced people camps, disrupting lives and livelihoods in Tana River County. In response, Doctors Without Borders/Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF) launched an emergency response in Garsen town providing medical assistance and delivering essential products to thousands of displaced families in the five biggest displaced people camps.

Since the launch of its intervention in Tana River County in response to the consequences of the flooding, MSF teams conducted 7,155 medical consultations to internally displaced people and host communities, including 1,623 children under 5 years old. Moreover, our medical teams manage to provide sexual and reproductive health consultations to 390 pregnant and postnatal women. The health care workers treated people suffering from upper and lower respiratory infections, gastritis, patients presenting symptoms of diarrhoea. Moreover, MSF assisted people with chronic diseases in need for regular treatments, mainly hypertension, asthma and diabetes and carried out 1,309 mental health consultations.