12 of the cutest babies born in MSF projects in 2017
From Chad to Syria, check out some of the cutest babies born this past year in our projects!
In Bolori health centre, in a crowded tent with dozens of mothers and babies, Hawa is holding her young daughter Zainab. Hawa can smile today as her eight-month-old baby is well on the way to recovery from her severe acute malnutrition. Zainab is being monitored under the Medecins Sans Frontieres Ambulatory Therapeutic Feeding program. Today her mother brought her from 3 km away for follow-up and to receive the next allocation of therapeutic food. © Jean-Christophe Nougaret / MSF
She is so tiny it is hard to believe that she is six months old. But young Fatima has a strong will to live. She offers big smiles to all visitors to the nutrition ward located in the single tent that resisted the storm which struck the medical facility two days before. Fatima’s mother Aishatou is visibly relieved that her tiny daughter received good and free healthcare in the MSF intensive therapeutic feeding centre in Gwange. She would have tried to give traditional medicine to her daughter if she had not been admitted in the MSF hospital as she had no money to pay for the treatment. It has been five days now and she looks forward to reuniting with her five other children—two boys and three girls from 2 to 12 years old. © Jean Christophe Nougaret / MSF
Clementine's baby is barely a day. She's a little girl, and her mom is still tired. This is her second child. She lives three kilometres from the Fronan health center in the Katiola district of northern Côte d'Ivoire and came by motorcycle when she felt the first contractions. In this region, Médecins Sans Frontieres (MSF) is supporting a maternal and child health program in partnership with the Ivorian Ministry of Health with a priority: managing complicated deliveries to reduce maternal and infant mortality. © Jean-Christophe Nougaret / MSF
Bintu, a nursing attendant carries the baby of Soro, born mid-March 2017 in the hospital of Katiola. © Jean-Christophe Nougaret / MSF
Aqila is Midwife Supervisor in Dasht-e-Barchi hospital, Kabul. She delivered her most recent baby, a boy, in this hospital. On working days he is cared for in the childcare centre attached to the hospital, which opened in January 2016. Médecins Sans Frontières established the maternity department in Dasht-e-Barchi hospital, Kabul, in November 2014, focusing on obstetric and neonatal emergencies. The hospital, run in partnership with the Afghan Ministry of Public Health (MOPH), is able to handle complicated deliveries including providing caesarean sections round-the-clock. © Najiba Noori / MSF
Dr. Katie Treble, a MSF doctor with a patient in Bria, Central African Republic. © MSF
Medecins Sans Frontieres (MSF) runs a comprehensive project to increase access to healthcare for expecting women, new mothers and their babies in Bangui, Central African Republic. © Borja Ruiz Rodriguez / MSF
Portrait of Stella 22, and her newborn baby. She is using the kangaroo mother care technique, used in the Castor hospital for those babies whose weight is below 1.6kg. © Borja Ruiz Rodriguez / MSF
A girl amid the rubble near her home, Kobane, North Syria. © MSF
In the maternity yard, three day old premature triplets are hospitalized with their mother Achata Ousmane, who is 26 years old and comes from the village of Mina, outside Am Timan. Salamat Region of Chad. © Abdoulaye Barry / MSF
These two newborns suffered from jaundice after the delivery and they are treated with phototherapy in Cote d'Ivoire. © Jean-Christophe Nougaret / MSF
In Katiola hospital nenonatology ward in Cote d'Ivoire, Miet, a neonatal nurse, is taking a blood sample from a premature baby with fellow neonatal nurse Achille. © Jean-Christophe Nougaret / MSF