Patrick Baffoun has worked as an MSF administrator at the country coordination level but is strongly drawn to being as close as possible to the project.
Marie Brun is an emergency coordinator for Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF) in Goma, in the province of North Kivu, Democratic Republic of Congo. She provides an update on the intensification of fighting between several armed groups, including the M23, and the Congolese armed forces since the start...
As the United Nations Security Council meets today after Israel struck tent camps sheltering displaced people in designated “humanitarian zones” in southern Gaza, Médecins Sans Frontières calls for an immediate end to the Rafah offensive and the ongoing atrocities across the Gaza Strip. Israel’s...
On the night of 26 May, 180 wounded and 28 dead were recorded at the Trauma Stabilization Point (TSP) we support in Tal al Sultan, Gaza, after airstrikes by Israeli forces hit a camp sheltering displaced people, in a designate safe zone by Israel. Most of the patients we treated had shrapnel wounds...
Since the end of February, Port-au-Prince has been engulfed in unprecedented violence, cutting off the Haitian capital from the outside world following the closure of the airport and ports. The escalating insecurity has severely disrupted the medical operations of Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF),...
The intensification of the onslaught by the Israeli forces in Rafah, Gaza, has forced Médecins Sans Frontières to stop providing lifesaving care at Rafah Indonesian Field hospital on 12 May. The 22 patients who remained in the hospital have been referred to other facilities, as we can no longer...
Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF) has been forced to suspend work at Babiker Nahar Paediatric Hospital, North Darfur state and Madani Teaching Hospital, Al Jazirah state, in Sudan after a series of security incidents and obstructions. One of these incidents even claimed the lives of two children and...
Israeli forces have begun their offensive on Rafah and have seized control of the border, effectively cutting off lifesaving aid deliveries into the Gaza Strip. As thousands of Palestinians are forced to flee eastern Rafah following Israel's recent evacuation orders, Médecins Sans Frontières calls...
MSF concerned over the increase of malnutrition among mothers in Yemen in the last two years. Mayasa sits on her son’s bed in Abs general hospital in Yemen’s Hajjah governorate. Two-year-old Mohammad was admitted to the hospital’s inpatient therapeutic feeding centre after he was diagnosed with...
Gaza’s healthcare system has been devastated, with men, women and children at increasing risk of acute malnutrition and with their physical and mental health deteriorating rapidly, according to a report released today by Médecins Sans Frontières/Doctors Without Borders (MSF) entitled Gaza’s Silent...
