MSF suspends work in detention centres in Misrata Detainees in the Libyan city of Misrata are being tortured and denied urgent medical care, leading the international medical humanitarian organisation Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF) to suspend its operations in detention centres in Misrata. MSF...
Teams from Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF) continue to provide medical care to migrants, internally displaced persons, and prisoners in the cities of Tripoli and Misrata, this in addition to a major mental health component in the country resulting from many months of violence. MSF expects that these...
The international medical humanitarian organisation Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF) today called on the warring parties in Libya to immediately halt all attacks on and intrusions into medical facilities in the town of Sirte. All wounded patients must have access to care and must be able to receive...
In this interview conducted on 13th October 2011, Dr Gabriele ROSSI, MSF emergency coordinator, describes a very serious situation in Sirte. On the night following the interview, six patients died at Ibn Sina hospital because they could not be operated on. In the north part of town, thousands of...
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Hundreds of vulnerable migrants and refugees in Tripoli are living in appalling conditions without proper medical care or security, according to Medecins sans Frontieres (MSF). MSF, which has started providing basic health care to two communities of displaced foreign nationals, says they need...
The situation remains very tense in Tripoli despite the fact that more areas of the city are becoming accessible to medical aid. Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF) has started working in medical facilities in the capital, donating lifesaving medications and supplies, and transferring patients in need...
Over the past 24 hours, Médecins Sans Frontières has been continuing to assess medical facilities in Tripoli and has begun to provide medical support. An MSF team assessed three healthcare facilities, all of which were suffering from massive shortages of lifesaving medical supplies and equipment...
A three-person Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF) team is currently in Tripoli with supplies and is starting to support facilities that are already overwhelmed with patients wounded in the fighting currently taking place in the Libyan capital. MSF has also dispatched teams to Zlitan, east of Tripoli,...
