MSF Issues Review of Emergency Response and Current Gaps in Medical Care, Shelter, Water and Sanitation, and Secondary Health Care Challenges. One year after a devastating earthquake killed an estimated 222,000 people and left 1.5 million people homeless, Haitians continue to endure appalling...
Why have at least 2,500 people died of cholera when there are about 12,000 NGOs in the country? The article was first published in The Guardian’s “Comment is Free” section By Dr. Unni Karunakara Haiti should be an unlikely backdrop for the latest failure of the humanitarian relief system. The...
Six months after the January 12 earthquake in Haiti, the international medical humanitarian organisation Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF) publishes today a report describing the organisation’s largest ever emergency response. The report also describes the dire living conditions of Haitians today and...
For more than a month, Walson and his wife have been keeping watch at the bedside of their five year-old son, Walderson, at the Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF) Saint-Louis Hospital in Port-au- Prince. They take turns at the hospital while caring for their other three children. The family lives in...
Four months after Haiti's devastating earthquake, MSF's teams continue to adjust their activities to meet the changing, but still major, medical needs. The organization continues to provide primary and secondary care to the population at no cost, working out of approximately 20 sites and operating...
The three-person assessment team sent to the area affected by the 7.1 magnitude earthquake that devastated the town of Jiegu last Wednesday have finished the initial stage of their assessment. According to the latest figures by Chinese official media, the quake in the Autonomous Prefecture of Yushu...
The three-person Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF) assessment team arrived in Yushu on Saturday evening and spent Sunday meeting officials and looking at medical needs. The team met with the local Public Health Bureau as well as Foreign Affairs officials who said that MSF assistance with the initial...
Following a 7.1-magnitude earthquake in Yushu, Qinghai Province early Wednesday, Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF) three-person assessment team arrived on Friday in the provincial capital Xining and has made contact with provincial health officials, the local Red Cross and INGOs who have been working...
While the majority of the Haitian population is still extremely vulnerable, the UN donor conference to be held in New York on 31 March must not take measures that would limit the access to health care of the population, says international medical organisation Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF). Since...
