MSF to Pull Out of Niger

by Rajashri on  October 30, 2008 at 2:41 PM General Health News
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It recently indicated that since it was suspended three months ago, "nearly 8,000 children" were suffering from severe malnutrition in two central districts of Madarounfa and Guidan Roumdji, in Maradi, the most affected region of the vast and arid west African nation.

Niger's health minister Issa Lamine last week rallied parliamentarians against the charity.

"Let MSF leave and let the state be able to deploy the means needed to take charge of the people's health."

Lamine charged MSF with providing "false" statistics about children suffering from malnutrition in order to "mobilise a lot of money" from donors and said "the situation is not dramatic at Maradi".

Earlier this month, MSF-France earlier this month sent its president Marie-Pierre Allie to Niamey in an effort to resolve the problem.

President of MSF international, Christophe Fournier, is due to hold a news conference Thursday in Niamey.

Niger is ranked one of the most impoverished countries on earth, sitting just four places from the bottom of the UN poverty indicator list of 177 nations.

Source-AFP
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