Our Work in Chad

Before peace was restored in 1990, Chad endured three decades of civil war and invasion by Libya, its neighbor to the north.  Despite several peace agreements between the democratic government of Chad and rebels, there have been ongoing outbreaks of conflict in the northern part of the country. In February 2008, rebel forces launched an attack on the capital of N’Djamena and forced thousands from their homes. As many as 50,000 Chadians fled into Cameroon, while Internally Displaced People (IDPs) scattered outside Chad’s capital to live without food and water. In addition, as Chad borders the volatile region of Darfur in Sudan, it also plays host to scores of refugees who seek asylum in the resource-strained country.

Reaching out to an estimated 72,000 Darfurians - approximately 25 percent of the total refugee population - and 200,000 Chadians, International Medical Corps supports refugee camps and IDP settlements.  International Medical Corps provides a support network of services that includes:

• Primary health care
• Secondary health care, including surgery
• Maternal and child care
• Expanded immunization
• Nutritional screening and therapeutic and supplemental feeding
• Health promotion
• HIV/AIDS awareness and prevention
• Sexual and gender-based violence prevention

International Medical Corps offers these services through health centers, mobile clinics, and hospitals. We rehabilitated a hospital in Guereda to bring secondary medical services to International Medical Corps-supported refugee camps. By upgrading the facility, we have made emergency care and surgery available to Darfurians living in the barren deserts of eastern Chad. A second hospital, Am Dam, also offers secondary care, and International Medical Corps supplies medicine, equipment, and personnel to help support its services.  We also provide health care through mobile medical units serving Haouich, a displacement camp.

More on our work in Chad