Al Zahraa hospital has this week been the latest hospital to be damaged by an airstrike in besieged east Aleppo, where 250,000 people are now trapped in an increasingly unsustainable situation. The medical facility was hit during the bombing on Tuesday evening and had to stop activities after doors...
Nyajuba (Nya) 5 years old was playing with her 8 year old sister near their home when shooting started. Sensing danger, her sister picked Nya up and together they ran to the bush. As they ran, Nya was hit by a stray bullet on her right arm. Admist the panic and fearing she was dead; Nya’s sister...
Following the August 15 aerial bombing of Abs Hospital in Yemen’s Hajjah Governorate, which killed 19 people and injured 24, Doctors Without Borders/Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF) has decided to evacuate its staff from the hospitals it supports in Saada and Hajjah governorates in Northern Yemen,...
Late last night, three of the five patients hospitalized after yesterday’s airstrike that hit a hospital supported by Doctors Without Borders/Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF) in northwestern Yemen, died, raising the death toll from 11 to 14 people, according to the latest information gathered by the...
Four MSF supported facilities have come under attack in the last year Abs hospital, in Hajjah governorate, northwestern Yemen, was hit by an airstrike at 3:45 pm local time on 15 August, killing at least 11 people and injuring at least 19. The blast immediately killed nine people, including a MSF...
A busy MSF-supported hospital serving a population of 70,000 people was destroyed by aerial bombing in Millis town, Idlib Governorate, Syria on Saturday 6 August, said Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF). Four hospital staff and nine others - five children and two women - were killed in the two aerial...
"we are surrounded by danger every single second." "The hospital is a second home for patients." “We attend to the tiniest details of our patients around the clock” ‘’The Gaza war taught us that the price of preparing a breakfast meal can prove to be very costly; we are surrounded by danger every...
Fighting has intensified over the past three weeks and the long-suffering people of Aleppo city are bearing the brunt of the devastation. Continuous aerial attacks pound the east of the city, while shelling strikes the west, causing many casualties and injuries. The siege on east Aleppo has left an...
More than 500,000 people are living in catastrophic and unsanitary conditions in a number of villages and towns across Borno state, northeastern Nigeria, according to Médecins Sans Frontières/Doctors Without Borders (MSF), which is calling for the provision of emergency aid for those people in...
MSF consultations for violent trauma doubled since March On 9th March 2016, European leaders announced that the so-called "Balkan route" was closed after Croatia, former Yugoslav Republic of Macedonia (FYROM) and Slovenia completely shut their borders to people trying to pass through to seek asylum...
