As of 13 January, 46 patients in total have shown symptoms of Ebola hemorrhagic fever in the province of Western Kasai, central Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC). Seven patients have been confirmed positive to the Ebola virus after sample analysis in laboratories. Of the seven confirmed, one has...
Hundreds of thousands of people have been forced to flee their homes since fighting resumed last August between the Philippine government forces and the Moro Islamic Liberation Front (MILF) rebels on Mindanao island. Settled in evacuation centers or simply along the roads, these displaced...
Jessica Pourraz , MSF field coordinator in Gaza, observes that the situation in the field remains unchanged. Given the security conditions, medical teams and humanitarian aid workers are still unable to deliver aid to a population that has nowhere to flee. It is still extremely dangerous to move...
Good evening everybody, just to start with a short presentation, actually we are facing a problem of access, a lack of access for the civilians wounded, for the beneficiaries to reach hospital and health facilities, but also a lack of access for humanitarian people to be able to move safely in the...
"It was very hard for me to leave all those people without the humanitarian assistance they so need." On, 8th of January, Pilar Bauzá, the MSF nurse kidnapped in Bossaso, Somalia, gave a press conference in her country's capital, Buenos Aires, at 4 pm local time. She decided to do this in order to...
The military offensive in the Gaza Strip is affecting civilians indiscriminately, while medical teams continue to face serious obstacles to providing assistance, the international medical humanitarian organisation Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF) said today. The international community must not be...
As of today, 7 January, a total of 42 patients have been reported with suspected Ebola haemorrhagic fever in the province of Western Kasai, central Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC). 13 of these 42 patients have died. The epicentre of the epidemic is probably Kaluamba village, in the centre of the...
More than a week after air strikes started on Gaza Strip and following the beginning of the land incursion of Israeli forces, surgical services are overwhelmed and in need of surgeons specialised in vascular surgery in order to deal with the number of wounded. In Gaza city, the intensive care unit...
> Condition: Critical - Voices from the war in eastern Democratic Republic of Congo Philippe HAVET, emergency coordinator "We're here in Karuba since this morning. It is the first day we're here with a mobile clinic to help the local people. They really didn't know we were coming. It was only...
Donations of medicine and medical supplies have been carried out over the weeendk to two of the main hospitals in the area. Today (29th December) MSF teams are trying to treat people injured by fighting in the Gaza strip helping to relieve the strain on hospitals which are overburdened by the...
