At 2.10am on Saturday October 03 the Médecins Sans Frontières’ (MSF) Trauma centre in Kunduz was hit several times during sustained bombing and was very badly damaged. Three MSF staff are confirmed dead and more than 30 are unaccounted for. The medical team is working around the clock to do...
Kabul, 29 September 2015. Médecins Sans Frontières’ (MSF) trauma hospital has been overwhelmed with wounded as heavy fighting between government and opposition forces engulfed Kunduz city on Monday. Since early Monday morning, MSF’s medical teams have treated 171 wounded, including 46 children...
Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF) is alarmed by the decision of the Humanitarian Committee of the self-proclaimed Lugansk People’s Republic to refuse permission for MSF to provide critical medical and humanitarian assistance in Lugansk. MSF is extremely concerned that this will deprive vulnerable...
Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF) was informed that MOAS (Migrant Offshore Aid Station) has decided to stop their current search and rescue operation on the Mediterranean Sea. As a result, MSF will no longer provide emergency medical assistance and post-rescue care on board the MY Phoenix as it has...
MSF has reinforced its teams on the Serbian side of the border to Hungary, following the closure of the border which is leading to a rapid increasing number of refugees being stranded on the Serbian side. Part of the MSF team that was working in Roszke (Hungary) for the last weeks is currently...
Open letter to European leaders (Copies sent to Switzerland, Norway, FYROM, Serbia and the President of the European Commission) We send you this letter today, together with a lifejacket belonging to one of the 15,000 people rescued at sea by Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF) since May. This poor...
10 September saw the immediate closure of the Captain Elias camp on Kos island, a makeshift building where authorities have been directing refugees to stay while awaiting their registration papers. Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF), who used the building for medical consultations, is expressing...
Makeshift hospitals supported by medical emergency organisation Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF) have reported a series of extreme mass-casualty influxes resulting from 20 consecutive days of intense bombing attacks in August on markets and civilian buildings in the besieged communities of East...
Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF) has officially opened its newly upgraded reconstructive surgery hospital in Amman, Jordan. The hospital serves war wounded patients from across the region who have no access to specialized surgical care in their home countries. The project was established in 2006 in...
The MSF boats Dignity I and Bourbon Argos together with the MY Phoenix, operated jointly with MOAS, yesterday rescued 1,658 people in MSF’s biggest day of operations on the Mediterranean Sea since operations began on 2 May. In six separate rescue operations, the three search and rescue vessels...
