Three years of violence halt government health services in Central African Republic – UN
The UN Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs (OCHA) said that access to health is very poor throughout the country, except in the capital Bangui, and insecurity also impedes or delays responses elsewhere.
Currently 1 million people are assisted by 31 health cluster partners including non-government organizations and UN agencies. Aid agencies use mobile services to help thousands of displaced in areas not covered by the Ministry of Health's basic facilities.
Preventive activities, primary and secondary health care, all functional referral hospitals, early warning mechanisms and rapid outbreak response capacity and psychosocial support remain essentially reliant on humanitarian actors, OCHA said.