Developed specifically for natural disasters, MSF’s inflatable hospital is a temporary structure in which its teams will provide secondary healthcare and surgical care in the typhoon-hit city of Tacloban over the next three to six months while the local healthcare system is rebuilt. A team from the...
Cindy is a Filipino nurse from the town of Estancia on the north east of Panay Island. She has been helping survivors of Typhoon Haiyan since it hit the Philippines on 8 November. She explains the initial medical response here. For the last few days, together with many of her colleagues, Cindy is...
Cradled in his father’s arms, five-month old Niño James PADERNOS cries feebly. He is coughing and has been feverish for two days, with red spots on his face. “Two days ago he came down with a fever. It didn’t go away”, says Niño’s mother. “His fever is very high, I am very worried. We came all the...
Almost ten days after Typhoon Haiyan struck the Philippines, aid is reaching airports, ports and cities, but people in many rural areas are still struggling without assistance, says MSF emergency coordinator Caroline Seguin. She describes the huge logistical challenges of getting emergency aid to...
Dr Johan VON SCHREEB, arrived in Guiuan in the east of Samar island on 14 November, an area devastated by Typhoon Haiyan and where MSF’s emergency team is setting up its medical services and treating patients. They are creating what will be an integrated provision of mobile clinics, reaching out to...
Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF) emergency team in the far east of Samar island, where the typhoon first stuck, is setting up its medical services and seeing patients. The team is creating what will be an integrated provision of mobile clinics, reaching out to the more isolated parts of the coast and...
While serious logistical difficulties remain, the activities of MSF teams on the islands most affected by typhoon Haiyan are taking shape. With 137 international staff in the Philippines today, and the arrival of 232 tons of supplies, MSF teams continue to assess areas outside the main cities while...
Emergency teams from Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF) have been extending their reach out into the areas that appear to have been worst affected by the typhoon. There are at least five distinct regional targets, where separate MSF teams have been looking at the extent of the medical needs in order to...
In the ongoing effort to assist people in the central Philippines affected by Typhoon Haiyan, Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF) teams have reached by car, boat, plane and helicopter some of the areas that were in the centre of the storm’s path — northern Cebu island, eastern Samar island, Panay Island...
