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Doctors Without Borders (MSF) treated more than 60 people following a series of grenade explosions in Bujumbura, the capital of Burundi, on Monday morning. The influx of casualties comes just five days after two other grenade attacks on Thursday, February 11, when 55 casualties were treated at the MSF trauma centre l’Arche in Bujumbura.
“We have received a large number of people, including women and children, suffering from traumatic injuries, including open fractures, head injuries and cuts. This is the second time in less than a week that so many wounded have come to our trauma centre”, explained Efstathios Kyrousis, head of the MSF Burundi programme. Two people were reported dead after grenades exploded in several areas of the city, mainly in the market area.
Doctors Without Borders has launched a massive casualty treatment program, treating the most seriously injured first. In just a few hours, Doctors Without Borders performed seven operations and plans to perform eight more operations in the coming days. Of the 61 patients treated on Monday, 18 were women and three were children.
MSF is one of the only international organizations treating injuries and trauma-related medical emergencies in the capital. The MSF trauma center currently has 43 beds, including an emergency room, two operating rooms and an intensive care unit, but will soon be expanded to 86 beds. MSF’s activities in Burundi are funded entirely by individual donations and the organization does not accept funding from any government for its projects in the country. In its activities in Burundi and elsewhere in the world, MSF treats all patients regardless of their ethnicity, religion or political affiliation.
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