Kamla was born in a remote Indian village
Where conflicts between Maoists and government are long and lasting
Villagers live in fear
No basic healthcare, bad transportation,
The instability worsens the problems
Intense combat on September 23 in the Somali capital, Mogadishu, has overloaded a Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF)-supported hospital with dozens of severely wounded people, including women and children. As of this morning, 81 people had been admitted to Dayniile Hospital on the outskirts of...
More than 100,000 people have been forced to leave their homes due to flooding in northwestern Nigeria, after a dam failed on the Rima River near Goronyo, Sokoto State, on 8 September. Dozens of villages were rapidly submerged when a large section of the Goronyo dam’s spillway collapsed. The area...
Following deadly violence in Tabarat market in Tawila locality, North Darfur state, international emergency medical humanitarian organization, Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF) provided urgent care to forty six wounded males, including one child. Since September 2, MSF medical teams treated 41 people...
A violent attack by men armed with hammers, and the burning of a village of internally displaced people are two in a series of violent events suffered by people living in the Kivu Provinces of eastern Democratic Republic of Congo recently. The number of gunshot and rape victims being treated by...
Despite recent easing, the embargo on the Gaza Strip continues to affect healthcare and certain medical needs are still not being met. Having assessed the situation and identified the needs, MSF has decided to open, in collaboration with the local health authorities, a reconstructive surgery...
Displaced by water The battered sign reads: “Welcome to Sukkur: City of Rivers and Canals”. More than five weeks have passed since the floods first struck Pakistan, and some of the water has started to recede in provinces like Khyber Pakhtunkhwa; but as it travels south, where fresh floods have hit...
Thousands of people have been forced to flee their villages in the Shabunda area of South Kivu, in the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC), due to heavy clashes between the Congolese army (FARDC) and various armed groups. Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF) is responding to the urgent needs of the...
We’ve been running a number of mobile clinics in Fadfedar canal, in the areas around Manjoshori and in Khabula, where the people we struggled to reach not long ago are now relatively accessible. Here in Dera Murad Jamali (DMJ) we are treating a lot of watery diarrhoea and we’ve begun to support...
Access to safe drinking water and healthcare is a top priority in the ongoing flood emergency in Pakistan, says international medical organisation Médecins sans Frontières (MSF). The response should be based on the need of the affected populations alone, and not subject to political or military...
