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To ensure delivery to your inbox, please add info@devex.com to your address book. June 26, 2018 WHAT TO KNOW NOW How the DRC empowered local health facilities in Kasai crisis By Sara Jerving @devex In some ways, the Kasai crisis has been unique to other humanitarian crises. People would flee into the forest, stay for several days or weeks, and return to their villages. Because of this, most of the displacement occurred internally within DRC, or even internally within provinces, rather than spilling over national borders. Due to this, IMA World Health has focused on paying patient fees directly to local health clinics so that these health systems could continue to function.     Photo by: Dr. Jean Coco, IMA health advisor   Starting in 2014, the organization — whose presence in the region predates the crisis — began implementing its Access to Primary Health Care Project, a health systems strengthening program in partnership with the DRC government. Before the crisis, patients paid 50 cents to $1 for a health visit, which covered access to a health care professional, lab testing, and any medicine prescribed. These prices were subsidized through the development project. But when violence hit the Kasai region, and people lost their livelihoods, even those rates were too high. "That's a significant amount of money — especially during a crisis like this — where people aren't able to grow their food," said Scott Shannon, IMA World Health deputy country director for DRC. Read more on the transparency and the transition out of the crisis through local health services in DRC.   QUOTABLE "We are at a moment where we are focused a lot on the possibility and the promise of technology, but we have many different ways in which we can undermine what we are trying to do for affected populations. 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