“We see them on TV, those who die young because of a cancer in the uterus,” Mary Jane explains, her youngest daughter wriggling in her lap while her other daughter and niece sit beside her. Together with 325,000 other people, she lives among the informal settlements of Tondo that cling to the docks...
Typhoon Haiyan, which ripped through the Philippines on 8 th November 2013, was one of the worst storms in recorded history, claiming 6,300 lives and displacing over 4 million people. As one of the world's foremost providers of emergency relief, Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF) had dispatched teams...
What is the situation at the moment? Typhoon Hagupit made landfall at approximately 9.15pm yesterday evening in the city of Dolores in eastern Samar. Dolores is a big city but it is not as dense as Tacloban, which as we saw last year was devastated when typhoon Haiyan hit. So far we don't have much...
It has been nine months since Typhoon Haiyan struck the Philippines and MSF started its intervention in the country. In Guiuan, where the typhoon first struck the low lying island chain, MSF has finished the construction of a semi-permanent hospital – the Transitional Felipe Abrigo Memorial...
In the six months since Typhoon Haiyan (Yolanda) hit the Philippines, teams from Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF) have provided care for emergency and everyday health problems in hospitals and mobile clinics, delivered clean water and helped to repair sewerage systems and health centres in some of...
Typhoon Haiyan/Yolanda ripped through the central Philippines on 8 November 2013, it caused a disaster of a scale unprecedented in the past century in the country, MSF immediately launched emergency interventions.
Three months after Typhoon Haiyan hit the Philippines, affecting 16 million people, emergency teams from Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF) report that although the relief effort is well underway, the recovery will take a lot longer. “The waste which filled the streets directly after the typhoon is now...
Over the past seven weeks, teams from Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF) have run mobile clinics by boat to deliver medical and humanitarian aid to five islands south of Guiuan that were affected by Typhoon Haiyan. The team includes a doctor, two nurses, a psychologist, a translator and two Filipino...
Dr Natalie ROBERTS has spent two months working in the Philippines, running MSF’s inflatable hospital in Tacloban I arrived in Tacloban a week after the typhoon. As soon as the town came into view from the air, the level of devastation became apparent. The runway was surrounded by debris – cars,...
One month after Typhoon Haiyan hit the Philippines, Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF) is still working on three of the country’s hardest-hit islands, providing healthcare for people in remote areas and supporting the health system as it recovers. One month after Typhoon Haiyan, which killed 5,600...
