Before I could see him, I could hear his screams coming towards us through the fabric of the field clinic tent. Carried in a standard issue dark thermal blanket by four young men; he was in tears, screaming and writhing in agony.
Last year, 75 hospitals managed or supported by Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF) were bombed. This was in violation of the most fundamental rules of war which gives protected status to medical facilities and its patients, regardless if the patients are civilians or wounded combatants. Beyond the...
Speech by Dr. Joanne Liu International President, Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF) United Nations Security Council Briefing May 3, 2016, New York, USA Excellencies, Ladies and gentlemen, Last Wednesday, airstrikes obliterated Al Quds Hospital in Aleppo. They blew apart at least 50 men, women and...
Our team in Kabo was a mix of nine different nationalities, with different cultures and personalities, and most of them were fluent in French and I wasn’t. But we’re all flexible enough to meet each other halfway.
The United States military today released its investigative report on the attack on the Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF) trauma hospital in Kunduz, Afghanistan on 3 October 2015. The attack killed 42 people, including 14 MSF staff members, and wounded dozens more. MSF was only able to access the...
The bombing of an MSF-supported Al Quds hospital in the northern Syrian city of Aleppo, on Wednesday night has killed at least 14 people, including at least two doctors said Medecins Sans Frontieres (MSF) today. According to hospital staff on the ground, the hospital was destroyed by at least one...
Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF) announced on 24 April that it has resumed search, rescue and medical aid operations in the central Mediterranean Sea, between Africa and Europe and conducted its first operation of 2016. Due to the lack of safe and legal alternatives for people to flee and seek...
The earthquakes that ratted southwestern Japan last week injured around 1,100 people in Kumamoto and Oita prefectures and led to the deaths of another 58. Roughly 103,000 people remained displaced in Kumamoto and around 600 in Oita, and the authorities are still searching for people who are...
