The ICRC is training Nigerian medical staff and providing hospitals with first-aid and surgical materials and equipment.
The ICRC is providing medical supplies and giving surgical training to the hospital, to help staff treat both illnesses and wounds inflicted by bomb blasts and bullets.
Thousands of people have sought refuge in Maiduguri following violence elsewhere in north-east Nigeria, many of them in need of medical or surgical care. The ICRC is supporting the hospital as it deals with this unaccustomed influx of patients.
The ICRC is making it possible for displaced people to receive treatment at the hospital in Maiduguri free of charge.
The situation of people displaced by the violence in north-east Nigeria, especially women and girls, is extremely difficult.
Maiduguri is one of 15 health facilities that have received first-aid materials and medicines from the ICRC in recent months.
The ICRC has trained 40 Nigerian medical staff working in hospitals in the north-east to manage mass casualty situations and treat patients with weapon wounds.
The situation of people displaced by the violence in north-east Nigeria, especially women and girls, is extremely difficult.
Working in cooperation with the Ministry of Health, the ICRC is caring for IDPs and people wounded by weapons who need emergency surgery.
The ICRC is supporting health facilities in north-east Nigeria as they treat an influx of patients displaced from elsewhere in the region. Many have been injured by weapons or explosions.
ICRC support for health services in north-east Nigeria includes:
The pictures in this gallery show some of the work being done at Maiduguri State Specialist Hospital, one of the facilities treating people who have fled violence elsewhere in north-east Nigeria.