In Sofia and Harmanli (in Haskovo province) Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF) teams have witnessed appalling conditions in reception centres and a disastrous lack of medical assistance for the refugees. As a matter or urgency, MSF has started medical activities and distributions of relief items in...
Family and sexual violence (FSV) is a medical-humanitarian emergency with serious consequences for survivors, at individual and also family level. Its effects go far beyond domestic borders and affect public health at national level. Survivors need access to free, quality, confidential, integrated...
Developed specifically for natural disasters, MSF’s inflatable hospital is a temporary structure in which its teams will provide secondary healthcare and surgical care in the typhoon-hit city of Tacloban over the next three to six months while the local healthcare system is rebuilt. A team from the...
Cindy is a Filipino nurse from the town of Estancia on the north east of Panay Island. She has been helping survivors of Typhoon Haiyan since it hit the Philippines on 8 November. She explains the initial medical response here. For the last few days, together with many of her colleagues, Cindy is...
Cradled in his father’s arms, five-month old Niño James PADERNOS cries feebly. He is coughing and has been feverish for two days, with red spots on his face. “Two days ago he came down with a fever. It didn’t go away”, says Niño’s mother. “His fever is very high, I am very worried. We came all the...
Since few weeks, MSF has deployed new mobile medical teams in the Central African Republic, especially on the main road between Batangafo and Bouca, around Bossangoa and in the southwest of the country. When new peaks of violence break out, this activity enables MSF to assess and respond quickly to...
Almost ten days after Typhoon Haiyan struck the Philippines, aid is reaching airports, ports and cities, but people in many rural areas are still struggling without assistance, says MSF emergency coordinator Caroline Seguin. She describes the huge logistical challenges of getting emergency aid to...
Dr Johan VON SCHREEB, arrived in Guiuan in the east of Samar island on 14 November, an area devastated by Typhoon Haiyan and where MSF’s emergency team is setting up its medical services and treating patients. They are creating what will be an integrated provision of mobile clinics, reaching out to...
Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF) emergency team in the far east of Samar island, where the typhoon first stuck, is setting up its medical services and seeing patients. The team is creating what will be an integrated provision of mobile clinics, reaching out to the more isolated parts of the coast and...
