Aminata Kaoucen works as a nurse for a neighborhood NGO known as Motion pour le Bien-Être in Southern Niger, the place she attends to refugees from neighbouring Nigeria at an built-in well being centre within the Garin Kaka refugee camp.
“I’ve labored as a humanitarian for 23 years, together with three years with refugees,” Aminata says in-between taking the temperatures of youngsters affected by malaria. “I like being with the sufferers and particularly with refugees, who’re very susceptible populations.”
Specialising in mom and baby well being, Aminata has receiving coaching from the World Well being Group in epidemiological surveillance.
Together with the 14 different well being staff on the built-in well being centre, she now combines this coaching along with her a few years of expertise to take care of greater than 40 sufferers a day, most of whom are affected by points associated to malnutrition and hygiene. Well being staff additionally display screen them in quest of ailments beneath surveillance.
“I selected this work because it permits me to assist people who find themselves very susceptible,” Aminata says as she walks to her session room. “Every affected person handled is a supply of satisfaction for me,”