The Humanitarian aid agency, Medecins Sans Frontieres, has started an emergency response in the areas worst affected by the flooding in Bihar State, India. Three medical teams of doctors and paramedic staff will focus on providing medical care to the population affected by the flooding. Initially...
An Médecins Sans Frontières emergency team based in Tbilisi has been able to gain access to the separatist province of South Ossetia and visit Tskhinvali Hospital. MSF, which already provides support to displaced people in Tbilisi, has offered to provide medical assistance in South Ossetia. On...
Following the outbreak of violence in the breakaway region of South Ossetia and subsequent attacks of the Russian army on the Georgian territory, MSF is preoccupied with the situation of thousands of people who have fled the conflict, and is also alarmed at the possible interruption of treatment...
Subo is bustling about this morning. In a few minutes time, Julie, the MSF nurse, will finish her rounds of the beds in the large "phase 2"tents. If all goes well today Subo will be able to bring her four little girls back home to her husband and their son. "Sheleme and Kutuba have an appetite...
These two children are brothers. There are still four brothers at home. This is what the father explained me before. They were hospitalised four days ago. And they arrived with severe malnutrition and oedema up to the face.Now they start to lose some weight. This is because the oedema is...
Once again in this type of situation, there is a lot of confusion introduced whether deliberately or through lack of correct information between the role of the states that have ratified the statute of the ICC, the United Nations and the activities of independant humanitarian organisations like MSF...
Since the events in early July linked to the use of a false humanitarian identity by the Colombian military in the liberation of hostages, Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF) medical teams have been forced to cancel or postpone mobile clinics in numerous rural areas in Colombia. This has a direct...
A serene calm reigns here. We're in one of the "phase two" tents of the stabilization centre in Kuyera. The rustling of plastic Plumpy Nut bags is an indication that the children here have regained their appetite. Most of them are capable of feeding themselves the high-energy paste, a sort of...
"THEY ARE CRYING A LOT. THEY NEED TIME TO HEAL, BUT THEY CAN'T BE CURED IN A SHORT TIME." Dr Mya Aye*, a Burmese doctor, has just returned from Bogaley where Medecins Sans Frontieres (MSF) is assisting survivors of Cyclone Nargis. She is the team leader, supervising both the medical and logistical...
The damned oedemas have persisted for several days now. Yesterday at daybreak Sheleme once again refused to drink the therapeutic milk. This set off alarm bells for the doctors who thought they would have to put her on a feeding tube. Sheleme was terrified. At the last second her mother, Subo,...
