Since 22 March 2020, Doctors Without Borders/Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF) has been assisting health workers in a centre specialised in treating epidemic-prone diseases. Part of Bamako’s Centre Hospitalier Universitaire du Point G , the centre is now being used to provide medical care to patients...
Médecins Sans Frontières / Doctors Without Borders (MSF) confirms that one of its international staff members, a Spanish national, has been evacuated from Mali to Spain as a precautionary measure following an exposure incident. The staff member, a Spanish national on assignment in Bamako, was...
Swift and coordinated action is of paramount importance in the days immediately after new cases are reported, the medical organisation says After a new case of Ebola was detected in the Malian capital, Bamako, on 11 November, Médécins Sans Frontieres/Doctors Without Borders (MSF) has reinforced its...
Some 70,000 refugees from Mali are living in difficult conditions in the middle of the Mauritanian desert, with ethnic tensions in northern Mali quashing any hopes of a swift return home. A report released today by Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF) entitled “Stranded in the desert” calls on aid for...
Following deadly clashes in Timbuktu, Mali on March 30-31, Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF) teams working in the city’s hospital treated 21 wounded people, including 11 civilians, two of whom died. Sporadic clashes between soldiers and armed groups prevent residents from traveling within Timbuktu,...
Dr Jose BAFOA has been in Gao, Mali for five months as Médecins Sans Frontières(MSF) medical team leader. The volatile situation in the past few days around Gao has caused a decrease in the number of patients arriving to MSF facilities, but Dr. Bafoa says the priority for him and his teams is to...
Two weeks after military operations began in northern Mali, Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF) continues to work in the regions of Mopti, Gao, and Timbuktu. In addition, on the morning of January 24, a small MSF medical team managed to reach Konna, a town located 70 kilometers north of Mopti, in the...
As bombings and combat continue in multiple locations in Mali, Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF) calls on all parties to the conflict to authorize humanitarian organizations to enter the area of Konna and to allow aid to be provided in all areas affected by fighting. MSF has been in contact with Mali’...
Along with continuing to run its existing programs in Mali, Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF) teams are prioritizing attempts to reach the outskirts and the town of Konna, in the center of the country. MSF is negotiating to obtain access to the region in order to assess medical and humanitarian needs...
Following violent fighting in Konna and bombardments in Lere and then in Douentza and Gao, Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF) calls on all the parties to the conflict in Mali to respect the safety of civilians and to leave health structures untouched. In Douentza, a town to the northeast of Mopti, the...
