February 13th, The industrial city of Gorlovka in eastern Ukraine has been under constant shelling, its hospitals are overwhelmed with the wounded, and medical supplies have run out, leaving doctors to stitch up patients with fishing line. MSF surgeon Dr Michael Roesch is supporting the Ukrainian surgical team in Hospital #2. I arrived in … Read more
Jean Philippe Garcia de la Rosa has just completed his mission as logistics coordinator for MSF in the Central African Republic (CAR). During 2014 he has seen the evolution of a conflict that hit the headlines in late 2013 with a new explosion of violent clashes between opposing militias. This small and forgotten country has … Read more
5th February 2015, Amsterdam/Dhaka. Victims of recent arson attacks taken to the Burn Unit at Dhaka Medical College Hospital are now able to access psycho-social care from international medical humanitarian organisation Médecins Sans Frontières / Doctors Without Borders (MSF). Services are similarly being made available to their caretakers. Since 31st January 2015, when MSF began … Read more
Bangui, February 2nd, 2015 – Médecins Sans Frontiès / Doctors Without Borders (MSF) is deeply shocked and saddened by the killing of Paulin Langbazounga, a colleague from the Comité de Gestion Sanitaire (COGES). COGES is the local administrative body with which MSF collaborates in order to provide healthcare to the population around Zemio, south-eastern Central … Read more
Ebola survivor and MSF’s psychosocial assistant Siannie Beyan tells her story: Siannie Beyan contracted Ebola and survived after care at the Medecins Sans Frontieres Ebola Management Center in Monrovia where she now works as a psychosocial assistant. © Adolphus Mawolo/MSF I lost my relationship of ten years because of Ebola. My partner abandoned me after … Read more
As fighting in eastern Ukraine continues to escalate, Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF) is urging all parties to the conflict to halt shelling of hospitals and ensure civilians can reach safe places. In response to the surge in violence over the last two weeks, the organisation is urgently expanding its support to hospitals on both sides … Read more
Mumbai, February 2 2015: Doctors Without Borders / Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF) India is hosting a 10 day photo exhibition While We Looked Away from February 2 to February 11 at the, Piramal Art Gallery, National Centre for Performing Arts (NCPA), Nariman Point. The photo exhibition, which has come to Mumbai for the first … Read more
Brussels – 29 January 2015 // Because access to people trapped in conflict areas has been systematically denied by the authorities in Sudan, the Brussels-based operational centre of Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF) today announces that it can no longer reach communities in the greatest need, and therefore has been forced to close its activities in … Read more
Reaching zero cases difficult unless weaknesses in the response addressed 26 January 2015: A downward trend of new cases is reported in Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF) Ebola management centres across Guinea, Liberia and Sierra Leone, with just over 50 patients currently in its eight centres. While this is a promising development, the medical-humanitarian organisation cautions … Read more
