The second wave of COVID-19 in India has been devastating, with a catastrophic rise in the numbers of new infections in recent weeks. The country has now recorded over 18.7 million cases and over 208,000 deaths [1]. The outbreak of the new coronavirus is overwhelming for all healthcare providers. The situation is dire, with a lack … Read more
Doctors Without Borders/Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF) is restarting emergency response amid a surging second wave of COVID-19 in Mumbai in Maharashtra. The city is very densely populated and the poor and dilapidated hygiene conditions are a triple trigger for the virus to breed, infect and spread rapidly. Daily new infections across the country have reached … Read more
They walked in single file through the narrow alleyways, winding away from their tin shack in Cape Town towards the health centre. Keitu – just 11 years old – carried her baby brother on her back since their mother was too frail and could barely manage on her own. Keitu kept a close eye on … Read more
COVID-19 stresses led to a spike in violence for people living with their abusers In March 2020, to curb the spread of COVID-19, India joined several other countries around the world in imposing strict lockdown measures and redirecting health resources to meet the needs arising from the pandemic. Globally, such measures resulted in limited access to sexual and reproductive … Read more
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Pune, India: Doctors Without Borders/ Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF) in collaboration with Indian Council for Medical Research (ICMR)- National AIDS Research Institute (NARI) and Department of Health Service, Government of Maharashtra is initiating two major clinical trials that aim at generating clinical evidence on the safety and efficacy of novel, short and all-oral regimens for the most difficult-to-treat … Read more
In mid-June, Médecins Sans Frontières/Doctors Without Borders (MSF) opened a 100-bed COVID-19 treatment centre in Patna, the capital of Bihar state in northeast India. As coronavirus cases continue to surge across the country (1,6 million cases as of 31 July), we talk to MSF workers and patients living and working on the frontline. They explain … Read more
पटना : भारत में Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF) / डॉक्टर्स विदाउट बॉर्डर्स ने बिहार सरकार के सहयोग के साथ कोविड -19 महामारी के रोगियों का इलाज करने के लिए 100 बिस्तर वाला अस्थायी अस्पताल, पटना के पाटलिपुत्र खेल परिसर में स्थापित किया है। COVID- 19 अस्थाई होसपिटल को आधिकारिक रूप से बिहार के माननीय मुख्यमंत्री श्री … Read more
Patna, Bihar: Doctors Without Borders/Médecins Sans Frontières(MSF) in collaboration with the Bihar government, opened a 100-bed temporary hospital for COVID-19 patients at the Patliputra Sports complex in Patna. This COVID -19 treatment centre, the first-of-its-kind to be fully managed by MSF in India, was opened by Nitish Kumar, Chief Minister of Bihar in the presence … Read more
To fight the ongoing COVID-19 pandemic, Doctors Without Borders/Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF) will soon launch its response to coronavirus in Patna, Bihar. The teams are working to set up a 100-bed COVID-19 treatment facility in the indoor stadium of Patliputra Sports Complex, Patna with the purpose of treating cases of COVID-19. The intervention aims to … Read more