Facts and figures

18-01-2013 Facts and Figures

During 2012, the ICRC ...

carried out 41 prison visits involving 3,500 prisoners, monitoring the cases of 242 of them individually;
facilitated the transfer of 15 detainees following their release.
supported Gao Hospital (which treated over 1,300 people in 2012) by making a seven-person medical/surgical team available and by providing medicines and other medical supplies;
maintained the water supply for the 115,000 residents of Gao, Kidal and Tombouctou, by supplying diesel to run water-pumping stations;
distributed food and other essential supplies to over 700,000 people in the regions of Gao, Timbuktu, Kidal and Mopti;
supported the national vaccination campaign involving over 1.12 million animals, plus the treatment of almost 580,000 animals in the north.
briefed over 600 members of the armed forces and armed groups on international humanitarian law.