Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF) is continuing its work in Goma and in other towns and villages in North Kivu, DRC and remains very concerned about the tens of thousands of people still on the move, fleeing the recent fighting. Without improvements in the security situation, people will be forced to continue running.

Even with today's widely reported aid delivery, displaced people throughout North Kivu continue to be in urgent need of food, clean water, healthcare and basic items like blankets and shelter materials.

In Goma and along the roads to the north, MSF teams are continuously evaluating the situation of the displaced and local residents in an effort to find needs that may have been overlooked. Overall, the situation in and around the city seems to be stable for the moment.

Over the weekend, MSF mobile clinics performed more than 100 consultations in Kibati, just north of Goma, where large numbers of displaced people are camped. More mobile clinics are working in Kibati today. MSF and other organizations are supplying clean water to the camp, but food is especially needed there.

West of Goma, on the Goma-Saké road, MSF teams continue to treat cholera patients in the camps for displaced people, and at cholera treatment centers in Goma, Kitchanga, and Minova. There have been 69 cases of cholera in the four displaced persons camps around Goma over the past week, and 20 in Kitchanga. In Buturande, near Rutshuru, there are 5 to 10 new cases per day.

Northwest of Goma, in Kitchanga, MSF has managed to increase the water supply in the Mungote displaced persons camp from two litres to at least 10 litres per person per day. Teams will try to achieve similar increases in two other camps in the area.

In Rutshuru, the displaced persons camps were burned last week and are now empty. People have fled to the north towards Kayna and Kanyabayonga. More than 10,000 displaced people have arrived to Kayna and Kanyabayonga, where MSF is running mobile clinics and supporting the Kayna general hospital.

MSF has also been assessing the movement of people over the border into Uganda. In Kisoro, Uganda, teams last week found about 4,000 displaced people, and others in Kitagoma and Ishasha.

As one of the few humanitarian organizations working in the area, MSF is looking at ways of increasing its response to the crisis to meet the needs of the population. The organization is continuing its work in hospitals in Masisi, Mweso and Rutshuru and will continue running mobile clinics in areas affected by fighting and displacement.