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Interview: Annie Desilets, project coordinator for Médecins Sans Frontières in Kitchanga, DRC

Democratic Republic of Congo / 06.11.08

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Annie Desilets is the project coordinator for Médecins Sans Frontières in Kitchanga in North Kivu, Democratic Republic of Congo. She’s with a team of more than 160 Médecins Sans Frontières staff working 85 km, or four hours by road, north of Goma.

There are two camps in the Kitchanga area. One has an estimated 25,000 displaced people, while the other has 18,000. And the numbers are growing.

The medical teams are concerned about an increase in upper respiratory infections and cholera cases.

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