In the wake of the devastating typhoon which hit the Philippines last Friday, emergency teams from Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF) are trying to reach the worst affected areas. Efforts to reach the city of Tacloban in Leyte Province are being complicated by roads blocked with debris, as well as...
Dr Natasha REYES, MSF Emergency Coordinator, arrived the Philippines on 9 Nov and is coordinating the relief work, she shared the latest situation on ground. “Right now we’re operating in a relative black hole of information. We know from the very little we can see that the situation is terrible...
Emergency teams (15 members) from Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF) have been in Cebu city (second largest city in Philippines) with the nearest fully operational airport to the disaster area, since Saturday 9th November. MSF is strengthening its team with an additional 50 people including medical...
Emergency teams from Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF) arrived in Cebu on Saturday 9th November. They have not yet been able to assess the full extent of the needs as access to the affected areas is extremely difficult; Tacloban airport has been destroyed, many of the roads are blocked and it is...
After Typhoon Bopha devastated coastal parts of Mindanao island in the Philippines earlier this month, Medecins Sans Frontieres has dispatched two teams to run mobile clinics to provide basic health care, monitor for outbreaks of disease and support recovery efforts. “There has been a massive...
Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF) is present in the region of Mindanao Island, the Philippines, most affected by the floods. A team is providing medical assistance to people whose houses were destroyed and who are now living in evacuation centers. Pierluigi TESTA, MSF's deputy emergency program...
Following the tropical depression which caused flooding and damage in several departments of Guatemala’s Pacific coast in mid-October, Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF) is distributing relief items to affected populations in 13 communities of the Nueva Concepción municipality. This area, located in...
The international medical humanitarian organisation Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF) is providing medical assistance in six low-lying areas hit by back-to-back typhoons and floods in the Bulacan province in Luzon, the Philippines. The emergency team composed of medical doctors, nurses and...
Medecins Sans Frontieres (MSF) is providing medical assistance in six areas hit by back-to-back typhoons and floods in Bulacan province in Luzon. MSF team composed of medical doctors, nurses and logisticians, conducted medical assessment starting in early October, after typhoons Nesat and Nalgae...
More than two weeks after Cyclone Giri struck the west coast of Myanmar on 22 October, the emergency response is insufficient to meet people's needs. The cyclone caused massive destruction in villages east and south of Sittwe, Rakhine State. At least 81,000 people are homeless and 40,000 acres of...
