139. Israeli Field Hospital for Rwandan Refugees-1994

Xerophthalmia in Rwandan refugees.

Armed Conflict and Schooling: Evidence from the 1994 Rwandan Genocide

Armed Conflict and Schooling: Evidence from the 1994 Rwandan Genocide To examine the impact of Rwanda’s 1994 genocide on children’s schooling, the authors combine two cross-sectional household surveys collected before and after the genocide. The identification strategy uses pre-war data to control for an age group’s baseline schooling and exploits variation across provinces in the intensity of ...

How robust are district health systems? Coping with crisis and disasters in Rutshuru, Democratic Republic of Congo.

BACKGROUND Since the eighties, the North Kivu Province socio-economic environment has been deteriorating. This province also faced an influx of Rwandan refugees in July 1994. The objective of the paper is to show how a rural health district has been able to adjust and maintain its medical activities under unfavourable conditions. METHOD Performances of the local health system were assessed th...

The Rwandan Genocide

Cholera admissions in adults 1989-1994: a hospital based study.

In order to gain insight into the distribution of cholera over the years and proportion of monthly admissions under our adult medical services, we scrutinized our records of hospital discharges between 1989 and 1994. Only culture positive cases were included. Each year most of the cases of cholera are admitted between May and November with almost disease free interval from December to April. In...