Doctors Without Borders/Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF) denounced the exorbitant price governments and non-governmental organisations are required to pay to vaccinate vulnerable children. In the past few weeks, MSF has vaccinated more than 5,000 refugee children between ages six months and 15 years...
MSF calls for the opening of a safe and legal passage at the land border between Turkey and Greece Brussels/Athens, 3 December 2015 – A joint operation to rescue people risking their lives on the dangerous sea crossing between Turkey and Greece has been launched by international medical...
10 September saw the immediate closure of the Captain Elias camp on Kos island, a makeshift building where authorities have been directing refugees to stay while awaiting their registration papers. Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF), who used the building for medical consultations, is expressing...
An MSF mobile medical team operating in the Idomeni area on the border between Macedonia (FYROM) and Greece received ten people with wounds from stun grenades fired by Macedonian border troops on 21 August. The situation in the area is currently in a state of chaos, with 3000 migrants and refugees...
The situation on the island of Kos over the last two weeks has taken a sour turn as more than 7000 refugees, asylum seekers and migrants arrived to the island over the month of July, a two-fold increase compared to June. In the absence of proper reception facilities, most have taken to put up tents...
Ahmed (not real name) Ahmed is from Mosul, Iraq, and decided to flee to Turkey when the security situation became increasingly tense in his home town. Unable to secure a good life for himself and his family in Turkey, he decided to try and get to Europe to seek asylum, but the journey turned out to...
There has been a sharp increase this year in the number of people arriving in Greece and especially on the Dodecanese islands, fleeing war, violence and poverty in their home countries. Since the beginning of this year, more than 46,000 refugees have arrived in the Greek islands by sea from Turkey...
Following reports of increased arrivals of migrants in the Aegean Islands in the last two weeks, an MSF team visited the islands of Samos, Leros and Simi between the 30thof August and 4th of September to assess the situation. During the visit, MSF ensured the provision of medical services and...
The constant arrival of migrants in Greece’s Evros region, coupled with the extreme weather conditions of the past few weeks, has been putting pressure on the already fragile system for receiving migrants in the border police stations of Soufli, Tychero and Feres and the detention center of Filakio...
Freezing temperatures and bad weather that struck Greece in early February led the Municipality of Athens to the decision to open temporary emergency shelters for the accommodation of homeless people. Responding to this emergency and in collaboration with the Hospitality and Solidarity Centre of...
