Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF) is providing critical healthcare to around 27,000 displaced people following devastating floods in Nepal. The crisis began on August 18th when heavy monsoon rains caused the Saptakoshi River to break through a retaining wall, flooding the Sunsari District in the...
Between September 1 and 7, Haiti was hit by Hurricane Gustav, Tropical Storm Hanna, and Hurricane Ike; 25,000 to 30,000 houses are reported to have been destroyed and 500 people are reported dead, according to authorities. Doctors Without Borders/Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF) staff arrived in...
Two Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF) teams have already started providing medical care to the victims of the floods in the northeastern Indian state of Bihar, where it has also started conducting the first emergency relief distributions in various locations and displaced camps, as well as the...
30-year-old Bassilia Tuanam comes from Sesakam in the district of Asmat in southern Papua. Sesakam is a hamlet of wooden huts sandwiched between the river and a dense tropical jungle that stretches over most of the region. In this hostile environment, scattered communities eke out a living,...
In an attempt to improve access and quality of care in the remote villages of Asmat district, southern Papua, MSF worked closely with the Ministry of Health to strengthen a network of Kaders and train nurses and midwives based in the villages. Kaders are local health workers selected from among...
In our center in Hadero, we have two structures. We have the OTP(outreach therapeutic programs) and the SFC (Supplementary Feeding Centre). These are two different kinds of structures because we're finding patients with different levels of malnutrition. So we have very malnourished patients, these...
In the district of Asmat in Papua, MSF has been working in partnership with the Ministry of Health to improve the quality of care for over two years. MSF set up a referral system for life saving emergencies, using a radio network to refer patients to the closest health centre by boat. In Agats...
MSF began working in southern Papua in March 2006, after a measles outbreak in the region. During the vaccination campaign alarming indicators were found especially for mother and child health. Malaria, diarrhoea, respiratory infections among children and pregnancy complications are the main causes...
A humanitarian air service flight went missing during a storm on September 1, en route between Kisangani and Bukavu. Contact was lost with the aircraft prior to landing, and it was located on the morning of Tuesday, September 2, crashed near Bukavu. As of midday on Tuesday, aerial surveillance had...
The rain is pouring daily in some of the areas where MSF started emergency nutritional activities in mid-May, the Oromiya and SNNP regions of Ethiopia. Landscape has turned bright green but when MSF staff is checking the nutritional status of children, the colour goes too often from yellow to red,...
