Doctor Binod KUMAR has been working on the MSF Kala Azar project in Hajipur since April 2008 and was among the first MSF teams to provide medical assistance to victims of the floods in Bihar. 1. What are the main medical problems you see in the camps? We focus our medical activities on pregnant and...
On Thursday September 18, heavy fighting broke out between armed groups northeast of Masisi town, North Kivu province, in the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC). The MSF team working in Masisi hospital provided emergency surgery to 17 civilians and armed men injured in the crossfire. Residents of...
One month after the river Kosi broke its banks and flooded large swathes of India's northern plains, access to flood victims remains challenging in some areas. In Bihar state, thousands of people may still be stranded, far from the reach of aid workers. In Supaul, which is among the worst affected...
For several years MSF teams in Pakistan have been running clinics and health centres in the regions bordering Afghanistan, where insecurity has had a serious impact on healthcare. But it has become clear that there are other rural areas in Pakistan where many people are finding it hard or...
While flood waters in Gonaives have mostly receded, some parts of the devastated town remain inaccessible and many people have not had access to healthcare, clean water, and food for 15 days. An MSF team continues to support the Raboteau Health Center in Gonaives, where more than one thousand...
Médecins sans Frontières (MSF) is treating people affected by the recent cholera outbreak in the Zimbabwean town of Chitungwiza. The first cases were reported at the beginning of September. At the start, there were between eight and ten patients admitted per day. Today (16 September) the number is...
In India, the relief effort continues in the northern state of Bihar. But three weeks after heavy floods devastated large swathes of the northern plains, many people remain stranded and have only received little aid. Access to large parts of the flooded areas is difficult because of the sheer...
A Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF) team found 8 dead bodies on September 9, on the beach of Wadi Al-BarakinYemen (30 kms east of Ahwar). These people, refugees and migrants who had escaped from conflict and extreme poverty in the Horn of Africa, were trying to cross the Gulf of Aden. During the rest...
Fourteen days after Tropical Storm Gustav made landfall, followed by Tropical Storm Hanna and then Hurricane Ike last week, many areas are still inaccessible in devastated Haiti. Since arriving in the northern Haitian city of Gonaives on September 4, one of the worst affected areas in the country,...
Almost 40.000 people have received either therapeutic or enriched food through MSF nutrition activities in the South of Ethiopia over the last four months. Crowds still throng at the entrance of the nutrition centres to try to get something to eat. 24.000 people suffering from severe acute...
