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Like all areas in the Kutupalong-Balukhali megacamp, in Cox’s Bazar district in Bangladesh, Camp 17 is marked by frayed, coloured flags tied to makeshift bamboo and tarpaulin shelters. But what makes it distinct from other areas in one of the world’s most densely-populated refugee camps is that much of it is still unpopulated. It is … Read more
Name : Designation : Kashmir-based medical doctor Samreen Hussain recently returned from Cox’s Bazar in Bangladesh, where she worked as part of a Doctors Without Borders/Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF) team providing medical care to Rohingya refugees from Myanmar. In this piece, she describes the challenges posed by the re-emergence of diphtheria. I arrived … Read more
Doctors Without Borders/Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF) is highly concerned about the fate of around 800 migrants and refugees held in a dangerously overcrowded detention centre in the port city of Zuwara, around 100 kilometres west of Tripoli. Some of the men, women and children inside have been detained in inhumane conditions for more than five … Read more
Juba – A team working for the international medical organisation Doctors Without Borders/Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF) were victims of a violent armed robbery on Tuesday 24 April. The robbery took place in an area south of Mundri town in South Sudan. MSF condemns this brutal act. While the MSF team was delivering much-needed healthcare … Read more
In Jharkhand, an Indian state known for its diverse tribal communities, the number of people that are malnourished is persistently higher than the national average. Since 2009, MSF has treated over 17,000 severely malnourished children in India using an innovative community engagement model. On the basis of this experience, our teams stared treating Severe Acute … Read more
Interview conducted and written by Kavitha Devadas for MSF In Jharkhand, an Indian state known for its diverse tribal communities, the number of people that are malnourished is persistently higher than the national average. Since June 2017, Doctors Without Borders/Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF) has been treating severe acute malnutrition in the town of Chakradharpur, in … Read more
Doctors Without Borders/Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF) received 63 casualties in a hospital it supports in Hajjah, following a series of night-time airstrikes by the Saudi and Emirati-led coalition on a wedding party that took place in a remote, impoverished village in Bani Qays district in Yemen, on Sunday 22 April. “Attacks on civilians are a … Read more
By Michael Shek, MSF nurse from Dumfries, Scotland. Worked in MSF’s trauma stabilisation unit in the east of Raqqa in late 2017. One cold January morning, a young Syrian man is rushed into an MSF stabilisation unit in Raqqa city, northeast Syria, in a critical condition. Half of his foot has been blown off and … Read more
Amman, Jordan, 22 April 2018 – Ahead of the Brussels conference on Syria, international medical humanitarian organisation Doctors Without Borders/Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF) urges the international community to scale-up healthcare funding for Syrian refugees in the region. A recent decision in Jordan to increase public health care fees for Syrian refugees could impact their access … Read more
Dr Javid Abdelmoneim recently returned from the Syrian city of Raqqa, which was taken by Syrian Democratic Forces and US-supported Coalition forces from the Islamic State group in October 2017. He spent a month working in a clinic set up by MSF in one of the few houses left standing in the city. Although the … Read more