A surge in violence in the two months since April has seen nearly 200,000 people displaced from their homes in Ituri province, northeast Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC), say Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF) teams working in the region.
Currently, DRC is second only to Syria for the number of internally displaced people within its borders.Relief web
MSF is calling on national and international organisations to step up their assistance to the displaced people.
"The violence is systematically targeting villages and health centres in order to prevent the people who fled from returning," says Benjamin Courlet, MSF's field coordinator.
MSF has been providing medical assistance to people in Ituri region since the conflict began.
As well as caring for the wounded, MSF teams provide treatment for common but deadly endemic diseases, including malaria, severe respiratory infections, diarrhoeal disease and measles, in hospitals, health centres and community health centres in areas where displaced people have settled around Nizi, Drodro and Angumu.
