According to the World Health Organization (WHO), no less than half of the individuals on the earth should not have entry to important well being care. Moreover, 344 million individuals are going deeper into excessive poverty every year as a result of they can’t afford the well being charges.

No surprise the United Nations has set a purpose for its member states to realize common well being protection by 2030, giving all individuals entry to important well being providers with out monetary hardship. The EU’s Global Health Strategy additionally prioritises strengthening resilient and equitable well being methods and advancing common well being protection.

Cameroon has launched into a common well being protection roadmap to fulfil this imaginative and prescient. Almost 70% of the price of well being providers is paid out of pocket by Cameroonians based on the World Bank. This represents a big barrier to accessing well being care, particularly since over 1/3 of Cameroonians are severely impoverished, lots of them within the distant and battle affected North.

People want entry to well being providers with out prohibitive prices, however skilled and motivated employees must also be readily available to deal with them. Yet, many medical doctors and certified well being employees apply within the extra steady central a part of the nation.

This is why, within the unstable Far North area, the place individuals have confronted insecurity, displacement and want humanitarian support, the EU helps the medical organisation ALIMA. This photograph essay is a tribute to the day by day work of their humanitarian healthcare employees.