Some 20 patients are currently treated with dialysis at Kirkuk hospital, in northern Iraq. This number represents just a fraction of those in need. It is still very difficult to work in Iraq. The security situation improved somewhat in the past two years, but it remains unstable. It is within this...
Since October 22, MSF has treated 16,500 people for suspected cholera in a total of 21 cholera treatment centers across Haiti. More than 150 international staff are working alongside 1,000 Haitian staff to run MSF’s cholera treatment programs and maintain a total capacity of 1,000 beds.
While cholera spreads, slow deployment of relief is major concern “Critical shortfalls in the deployment of well-established measures to contain cholera epidemics are undermining efforts to stem the ongoing cholera outbreak in Haiti”, said the international medical humanitarian organization...
Being a first missioner sent to Sierra Leone as a Financial Coordinator, I was at first very stereotype, thinking Africa was purely linked to the words of poverty, hunger, sympathetic. So when I set my foot on the African land, I saw images which I
On Tuesday, the Haitian government announced that the death toll from the cholera outbreak that began last month had surpassed 1,000. MSF teams saw cases increasing across the country with particular spikes in the capital, Port-au-Prince, and the northern cities of Cap Haitien, Port de Paix, and...
Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF) continues to step up its response to the growing number of patients in Port-au-Prince experiencing the clinical symptoms of cholera. As is the case in other MSF health facilities, rising numbers of patients have been admitted to Choscal Hospital, a Haitian Ministry of...
MSF teams in Niger are particularly on alert in the period between July and November. Malnourished children are at risk of contracting malaria and many who are already suffering from it become extremely vulnerable as a result of the combination. Malaria further reduces appetite among these children...
Cholera Outbreak Outstripping Existing Treatment Capacity in Capital Since a cholera epidemic was first confirmed in October in Haiti’s Artibonite region, Médecins Sans Frontières teams have treated more than 10,000 suspected cases nationwide. In addition to MSF’s 3,000 staff members in Haiti, more...
Over the past three days, Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF) medical teams supporting Haitian Ministry of Public Health facilities and working in their own independent medical structures in Haiti’s capital, Port-au-Prince, have treated more than 200 people suffering from severe diarrhea, a clinical...
