As Colombo celebrates the end of the conflict as declared by the government of Sri Lanka, thousands of people are leaving the former conflict zone, arriving in Vavuniya district in desperate need of medical care. Traumatised and exhausted – with hundreds injured – a staggering 50,000 people have...
MSF urges affected countries to scale up diagnosis and treatment on 100th anniversary of the disease’s discovery The World Health Organization (WHO) has cut short its annual health ministers’ meeting due to influenza A (H1N1) preparations and postponed discussions about Chagas disease. Yet much...
Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF) denounces the growing pressure applied by Thailand’s army to force the 5,000 Hmong refugees living in Huai Nam Khao camp, in northern Thailand, to return to Laos. Increasingly restrictive measures have forced MSF to put a stop to its assistance activities after some...
Every day in the hospital is a busy day for Sivananthan, and today is no different. A 25 year old electrician from Vavuniya, Sivananthan is one of the MSF caretakers working in the Ministry of Health Vavuniya General hospital, northern Sri Lanka. Today he is working in wards 9 and 10, two of the...
MSF wants to remind all parties to respect medical facilities A new surge in fighting in Somalia’s war torn capital, Mogadishu has led to many casualties and forced thousands to flee. In the northern part of Mogadishu, the international medical humanitarian organization Médecins Sans Frontières (...
While tens of thousands of people remain trapped in the fighting zone and almost 200,000 are displaced in Vavuniya district alone, MSF teams continue to provide surgical support in the Vavuniya hospital and deliver supplementary food in internally displaced people’s (IDP) camps Vavuniya and Menik...
On the 12th of May 2008, a devastating earthquake hit Sichuan province, leaving more than 80,000 dead and 10 million homeless. Even after one year, the displaced people who lost their families, homes, and jobs by the quake are still suffering from psychological disorders and in need of...
On the 12th of May 2008, a 7.9 magnitude earthquake struck southwestern Sichuan Province in China, leaving more than 80,000 people dead and 370,000 people injured. The epicenter of the quake was Wenchuan located in the northwest of Chengdu, the capital of Sichuan province. Some 90,000 buildings...
The MSF supported HIV clinic in Epworth, a satellite town to Zimbabwe’s capital city, has doctors, nurses, drugs, supplies – it is working and it is free. A rarity in today’s Zimbabwe, where the national health system is basically dysfunctional. After more than one year without real salaries –...
