Photo: Peter Biro/IRC
KAGA BANDORO, Central African Republic
“I treat rape survivors here every day,” IRC-trained midwife Margueritte Mallo says as she sits on a bench outside her tiny office at the Kaga Bandoro hospital in the Central African Republic. Violence continues to plague the landlocked country of 4.6 million.
On Christmas day last year, armed men from the Seleka militia overran the district hospital in the town of Kaga Bandoro in the Central African Republic. The rampaging rebels looted everything from medicines, lamps and surgical gloves to generators, mattresses and solar panels.
“Nobody feels safe here anymore, not even in the hospital beds,” says Margueritte Mallo, a 44-year-old midwife trained by the International Rescue Committee.