The earthquakes that ratted southwestern Japan last week injured around 1,100 people in Kumamoto and Oita prefectures and led to the deaths of another 58. Roughly 103,000 people remained displaced in Kumamoto and around 600 in Oita, and the authorities are still searching for people who are...
As host to both AIDS conference and TPP trade talks this month, Malaysia reportedly vows to reject a TPP trade agreement that harms access to medicines; other countries should follow suit, and Malaysia should be held to its pledge Countries negotiating the Trans-Pacific Partnership (TPP) Agreement...
MSF has begun to support the construction and rehabilitation of two clinics in the disaster-affected area of northeast Japan, where MSF staff have been working for the last three months. While the government’s recovery efforts continue following the devastating March 11th earthquake and tsunami, it...
Two months after the massive earthquake and tsunami in the northeast of Japan, a team of Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF) Japanese psychologists are continuing to work with survivors as government-led recovery efforts expand across the region. MSF has also designed, provided materials and managed the...
A team of six MSF Japanese psychologists have started working with the survivors of the massive earthquake and tsunami in northeast of the country. MSF sent a team to the area the day after the quake and tsunami flattened coastal areas in the northeast, and have continued to work in the area since...
For the past seven days MSF has been providing medical consultations in evacuation centres in Minamisanriku, where around 10,000 people are housed in 20 locations. Dr Yoshitaka NAKAGAWA returned on Saturday night after spending a week in the northeast with teams sometimes hiking into remote...
A 9.0-magnitude earthquake and resulting tsunamis hard hit northeastern Japan. Although the death toll is high and the devastation is large-scale, as of today we see that the authorities in Japan were well-prepared for a disaster of this nature, and had well-defined emergency response plans...
March 16 The team, now 12 people, reassembled and established an operational base in Tome, in northern Miyagi prefecture and spread into three groups. One group of two people continued to work with local doctors in evacuation centres in Minamisanriku, another team of two people went to Oshima...
On Tuesday, members of the 11-person MSF team in the area devastated by last week’s earthquake and tsunamis worked in evacuation centres with local medical staff in a small, isolated community in Miyagi prefecture. “There were two local doctors in Minamisanriku who have been working in around 20...
