Since Saturday 7 October, Herat Province in western Afghanistan has been hit by three powerful earthquakes as well as innumerable aftershocks of varying strengths. At the Herat Regional Hospital, where MSF runs regular activities in the paediatric department, MSF donated mass casualty kits and...
[Update on 15/10] A third earthquake, measuring 6.3 magnitude, struck Herat today. Herat Regional Hospital received over 100 injured, who are being treated alongside those admitted earlier in the week. The population is very on edge and even before this earthquake many people were sleeping outside...
On Sept. 8, 2023, a 6.8 magnitude earthquake hit central Morocco, killing 2,862 and leaving around 6,000 people injured . The earthquake mainly hit the rural area of the High Atlas Mountains, where there were landslides, collapses and paths were cut or difficult to use. In this region, access to...
[Update on 14/9] This week, an MSF team travelled to Morocco's Chichaoua Province, located in Marrakesh-Safi, to evaluate the needs of the people living in the isolated villages affected by the strong earthquake that struck the country on the night of Friday to Saturday 8 to 9 September 2023...
John Johnson, MSF emergency coordinator, describes the situation and MSF's ongoing assessment in Marrakesh and in the cities and villages heavily affected by the earthquake, the type of wounded he met and the medical needs on site. "We settled into Marrakesh and two of us went down to a village...
[Update on 12/7] MSF Head of Mission for Syria, Sebastien Gay, comments on the UNSC failure to renew the cross-border resolution during their session on 11 July 2023: The failure to renew the cross-border resolution at the United Nations Security Council meeting on July 11 is shameful. Politics is...
As of 31 May, Médecins Sans Frontières will hand over its intervention activities in Türkiye, as the emergency response ends, following the devastating earthquakes that killed 51,000 people in the country's southeast. After the first quake struck on February 6, MSF supported Turkish civil society...
MSF’s response to the earthquakes in Syria Key data as of February 24, 2023: • Relief items distributed: 30,232 • Mobile clinics consultations: 5,667 • Number of mental health consultations: 450 • Medical supplies donated: 27 tons • Hospitals supported: 32 MSF has been present in northwest and...
Logistics coordinator Ricardo Martínez is leader of one of the first MSF emergency teams to arrive in Türkiye following the 6 February earthquakes. He describes the situation in the city of Adiyaman.
Médecins Sans Frontières calls for the urgent scaling up of humanitarian supplies, which currently fail to even match pre-earthquake volumes A MSF convoy of 14 trucks entered northwestern Syria on Feb 19, arriving from Türkiye through the Hammam border crossing point. This first convoy carries 1,...
