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INTERVIEW-Ivory Coast's Abidjan risks health disaster - MSF
10 Apr 2011 19:38
Source: reuters // Reuters
By Mark John
ABIDJAN, April 10 (Reuters) - The battle for Ivory Coast's main city Abidjan is pushing its four million residents ever closer to a health disaster, relief agency Medecins Sans Frontieres (Doctors Without Borders) said on Sunday.
Widespread cuts in water supply come as medicines are running out, while violent militias are dissuading many from venturing out into the streets to seek food already retailing at multiples of its peace-time price.
"It is a city of four million, most of whom don't have access to health facilities," MSF Abidjan Field Coordinator Henry Gray told Reuters in a telephone interview from his downtown office, as fire from automatic weapons rang out in the background.
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http://www.trust.org/alertnet/news/interview-ivory-coasts-abidjan-risks-health-disaster-msf
10 Apr 2011 19:38
Source: reuters // Reuters
By Mark John
ABIDJAN, April 10 (Reuters) - The battle for Ivory Coast's main city Abidjan is pushing its four million residents ever closer to a health disaster, relief agency Medecins Sans Frontieres (Doctors Without Borders) said on Sunday.
Widespread cuts in water supply come as medicines are running out, while violent militias are dissuading many from venturing out into the streets to seek food already retailing at multiples of its peace-time price.
"It is a city of four million, most of whom don't have access to health facilities," MSF Abidjan Field Coordinator Henry Gray told Reuters in a telephone interview from his downtown office, as fire from automatic weapons rang out in the background.
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http://www.trust.org/alertnet/news/interview-ivory-coasts-abidjan-risks-health-disaster-msf