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Malaria mobile teams were set up by the MTF to attend
displaced population without access to the camp health structures. One
of these teams also oversees the malaria clinics in a settlement for internally
displaced persons (5000) who are currently not receiving medical assistance
from NGOs. The malaria mobile clinics teams are composed of medics, assistants
and laboratory technicians and home visitors. On a daily basis the team
diagnoses and treats malaria patients, following the same MTF guidelines.
Uncomplicated cases are treated on site and severe cases are transported
to the nearest in-patient facility. Because of the high susceptibility
of the pregnant women to malaria, these mobile teams also run weekly antenatal
clinics and the women attending are screened for malaria weekly. This
allows an important reduction in the maternal morbidity and mortality
due to malaria. |