MSF Photo Blog

North West Frontier Province – September 19, 2009
An infant dozes on a stretcher in a fan-cooled tent at the MSF run cholera treatment centre at the Mardan Medical Complex, in Pakistan’s North West Frontier Province, while older women peer into structure housing 12 of 65 beds. Between June and October 2009, MSF treated a total of 1 611 patients at the centre and about a third of the patients had to be put on intravenous rehydration immediately to save them. Young children remain most at risk of the diseases that is endemic to the region.