It’s been a year since the eruption of a devastating conflict between the Philippines’ army and insurgents, which lasted five months. MSF is committed to rebuilding primary health structures in a heavily destroyed city – while supporting those still unable to come home. A view of Marawi City’s ‘...
In the areas of Haiti hit hardest by Hurricane Matthew, many communities remain cut off from aid, rendered inaccessible by the storm. Doctors Without Borders/Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF) patients and staff members tell their stories in their own words. Lopino, a village in the mountains around...
Teams from Doctors Without Borders/Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF) are continuing their assessments of areas of Haiti affected by Hurricane Matthew on the Tiburon peninsula as well as the Artibonite and Northwest departments. In Jérémie, MSF found that the reference hospital has suffered damage and...
Typhoon Haiyan, which ripped through the Philippines on 8 th November 2013, was one of the worst storms in recorded history, claiming 6,300 lives and displacing over 4 million people. As one of the world's foremost providers of emergency relief, Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF) had dispatched teams...
In the six months since Typhoon Haiyan (Yolanda) hit the Philippines, teams from Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF) have provided care for emergency and everyday health problems in hospitals and mobile clinics, delivered clean water and helped to repair sewerage systems and health centres in some of...
Typhoon Haiyan/Yolanda ripped through the central Philippines on 8 November 2013, it caused a disaster of a scale unprecedented in the past century in the country, MSF immediately launched emergency interventions.
Three months after Typhoon Haiyan hit the Philippines, affecting 16 million people, emergency teams from Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF) report that although the relief effort is well underway, the recovery will take a lot longer. “The waste which filled the streets directly after the typhoon is now...
Over the past seven weeks, teams from Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF) have run mobile clinics by boat to deliver medical and humanitarian aid to five islands south of Guiuan that were affected by Typhoon Haiyan. The team includes a doctor, two nurses, a psychologist, a translator and two Filipino...
Dr Natalie ROBERTS has spent two months working in the Philippines, running MSF’s inflatable hospital in Tacloban I arrived in Tacloban a week after the typhoon. As soon as the town came into view from the air, the level of devastation became apparent. The runway was surrounded by debris – cars,...
