For the past seven days MSF has been providing medical consultations in evacuation centres in Minamisanriku, where around 10,000 people are housed in 20 locations. Dr Yoshitaka NAKAGAWA returned on Saturday night after spending a week in the northeast with teams sometimes hiking into remote...
A 9.0-magnitude earthquake and resulting tsunamis hard hit northeastern Japan. Although the death toll is high and the devastation is large-scale, as of today we see that the authorities in Japan were well-prepared for a disaster of this nature, and had well-defined emergency response plans...
March 16 The team, now 12 people, reassembled and established an operational base in Tome, in northern Miyagi prefecture and spread into three groups. One group of two people continued to work with local doctors in evacuation centres in Minamisanriku, another team of two people went to Oshima...
On Tuesday, members of the 11-person MSF team in the area devastated by last week’s earthquake and tsunamis worked in evacuation centres with local medical staff in a small, isolated community in Miyagi prefecture. “There were two local doctors in Minamisanriku who have been working in around 20...
As access improves in the region devastated by the 9.0-magnitude quake and tsunamis in northeast Japan, Medecins Sans Frontieres (MSF) is finding serious needs among pockets of populations in areas that had previously been impossible to reach by road. MSF currently has a team of 10 people divided...
The Medecins Sans Frontieres (MSF) team sent to the area devastated by the 9.0-magnitude earthquake and resulting tsunamis in northeast Japan continues to assist in the massive government-led relief effort. The team has expanded to 10 people, with further personnel being sent on Monday. “On Sunday...
On Saturday evening, the Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF) assessment team reached the area of northeast Japan hit by the devastating 8.9 magnitude earthquake. “In some places, we saw that houses and buildings had been completely destroyed. Local people said the water from the tsunami had gone down...
Following the 8.9 magnitude earthquake and resulting tsunamis that devastated areas of northeast Japan on Friday afternoon, a chartered helicopter with two Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF) teams has landed in Miyagi prefecture. The team is travelling to the medical coordination centre in the worst-...
Following the 8.9 magnitude earthquake and resulting tsunamis that hit northeast Japan on Friday afternoon, two Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF) teams of three-people are attempting to get to the worst-hit areas in Iwate and Miyagi prefectures. Access to the area by land is currently blocked by the...
