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In Sokoto, northwest Nigeria, a very special place can be found: the Noma Children Hospital, the only in the world fully dedicated to Noma. Since 2014, Médecins Sans Frontières/Doctors Without Borders (MSF) supports the hospital with the activities that cover the different needs that a person affected by Noma or a survivor of this disease need. The programme, run in collaboration with the Nigerian Ministry of Health, focuses on community outreach, active case finding in the region, health promotion, mental health support and surgery. Four times per year, MSF sends high profile plastic and maxillofacial surgeons, nurses and anaesthesiologist to perform surgeries to the patients that survived Noma but live with facial holes and disfigurements that cause them life-threatening impairments and provokes a social stigma. In 2017, 301 surgeries were performed to 243 Noma patients.