Burundi: MSF Treats 60 People Wounded in Grenade Explosions

Press releaseBurundi: MSF Treats 60 People Wounded in Grenade Explosions November 18, 2015 BUJUMBURA, BURUNDI—The international medical humanitarian organization Doctors Without Borders/Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF) treated 60 injured people at its trauma center on Monday after grenades exploded in several Bujumbura neighborhoods.  The MSF team launched a mass casualty plan on Monday morning to treat the rapid influx of wounded, triaging to treat the most serious cases first. "We opened a second operating room and performed five emergency surgeries in the hours that followed," said Richard Veerman, MSF program manager.
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