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Guinea-Bissau

MSF closed our projects in Guinea-Bissau in 2020.

From 2014 until 2020, MSF teams worked to improve paediatric care in Guinea-Bissau.

In the central region of Bafatá, we worked to reduce childhood mortality by managing the regional hospital’s neonatal and paediatric wards and running a nutrition programme for children under 15 years of age.

Our teams also supported several health centres in rural areas and trained community health workers to diagnose and treat diarrhoea, malaria, and acute respiratory infections.

We also worked in the main paediatric hospital in the country, in the capital of Bissau, managing the intensive care unit around the clock.

We handed over our projects in June 2020, leaving our facilities, equipment, and laboratory to the knowledgeable healthcare workers we trained.

 
Guinea-Bissau. MSF emergency paediatric project in the national hospital in Bissau
Guinea-Bissau

Paediatric emergency services in practice

Voices from the Field 29 Nov 2018
 
Guinea-Bissau. MSF emergency paediatric project in the national hospital in Bissau
Guinea-Bissau

Five things to know about our emergency paediatric project in Bissau

Project Update 29 Nov 2018
 
Guinea-Bissau. New healthcare project for children in Bafata
Guinea-Bissau

Medical knowledge that outlasts MSF project

Voices from the Field 18 Jun 2018
 
Paediatric care in national hospital in Bissau
Guinea-Bissau

Many children would be saved if they arrived at the hospital earlier

Voices from the Field 29 Jul 2016
 
Meningitis Epidemic in Niger
Epidemics and pandemics

Epidemics: Neglected emergencies?

Report 25 Nov 2015
 
Guinea-Bissau

28,500 children vaccinated against measles

Project Update 31 Jul 2015