While the world’s media focuses on stories of violence and drone attacks in north-west Pakistan, local families struggle through another bitter winter in the mountains, with little or no access to healthcare. There was the baby who was so cold, his lower body was turning blue. To reach the local...
We just finished a medical mission in the province of Bukidnon, Philippines. My friend and fellow anaesthetist looked at me incredulously after learning that I accepted a medical assignment to Pakistan with MSF.
An explosion on 20 April at the gate of the District Headquarter Hospital in Khar, Bajaur Agency injured and killed several people, leading Médecins Sans Frontières to insist that medical structures and patients be spared from violence. MSF is working in Bajaur, which borders Afghanistan, calls for...
Cases of measles are on the increase in east Balochistan, says Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF). An MSF medical team in Dera Murad Jamali has treated 159 patients since late December; while there have been two measles-related deaths in health facilities supported by MSF in Jaffarabad and Nasirabad...
Calls for respect of medical mission Regardless of who is responsible for the recent escalation of attacks against health workers in Pakistan, the targeting of medical personnel has created a situation in which both patients and medical workers are at risk of losing their lives while seeking or...
