MSF’s teams in Juba are now responding to some of the medical needs that arose following the fighting and we continue to look at ways to provide people with more assistance. Yesterday a team of four ran mobile clinics at the St Theresa Church where 2,500 people were taking refuge. The team focused...
It’s been more than two years since conflict erupted in eastern Ukraine, yet thousands of forgotten victims remain left behind in areas close to the now unmoving line of contact. More than 9,300 people have been killed and some 21,500 injured since mid-April 2014(footnote 1). Despite fading from...
Around 60,000 people who are stuck in extremely harsh conditions close to Jordan’s northeastern border with Syria need humanitarian aid to be resumed immediately, and international protection has to be offered, Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF) said Thursday. In the wake of a suicide attack on a...
MSF releases a report on the response to February Malakal PoC attack Médecins Sans Frontières / Doctors Without Borders (MSF) has today released a report into the peacekeeping and humanitarian response following the attack on the Malakal Protection of Citizens (PoC) site on 17-18 February. The...
Before fleeing the advances of the Islamic State (IS) group, Baroj worked as a specialist nurse in the intensive care unit of Salam hospital in Mosul, northern Iraq.
Two months into the ceasefire in Yemen civilians continue to be severely affected by violence according to Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF). Since the ceasefire started in April, MSF facilities and supported hospitals treated a staggering 1,624 people with injuries caused by the intense fighting in...
After intense fighting in Taiz, MSF-supported hospitals in the city received in one day 122 wounded patients on Friday 3 June 2016. A further 12 were dead on arrival. The vast majority of the wounded were civilians. Today, as fighting continues, three injured children from the same family were...
An estimated 100,000 people trapped in Azaz district between the frontline with Islamic State and the Turkish border must be allowed to reach safe haven in Turkey. Europe must also honour its moral and legal commitments by granting asylum to those fleeing from this conflict, said Médecins Sans...
Two months after the signing of the deal by the European Union and Turkey, the situation continues to deteriorate for migrants incarcerated on the Greek islands. Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF) reiterates the abject conditions of these incarcerations and calls for the immediate opening of hotspots...
