PORT-AU-PRINCE, Haiti, May 11, 2022—Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF) is alarmed by the latest wave of violence in Port-au-Prince as its staff have received more than 96 people with gunshot wounds in its medical facilities since April 24. From April 24 to May 7, clashes between armed groups in the northern part of the capital have … Read more
Dr Morten Rostrup from Norway is working with Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF) in Kharkiv, northeastern Ukraine. Here, he and a team are providing medical consultations in the underground stations where people are sheltering from the country’s war. This is his first-hand account of what he saw and of the stories of people he met. She … Read more
MSF staff member shot and killed in latest violence in Leer County. Numerous people killed and thousands displaced due to the fighting. MSF calls on all armed groups to respect international humanitarian law and immediately cease targeting civilians and health facilities. The latest violence in Leer County, South Sudan, has resulted in the deaths of dozens … Read more
Each year thousands of Palestinians suffer from conflict-related violence. In 2021 alone, Israeli forces and settlers injured more than 18,300 people across Palestine. To improve the capacity of Palestinians to respond to people’s medical needs, teams from Doctors Without Borders/Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF) have trained community volunteers in first aid, trained hospital staff in dealing with mass … Read more
For all of the latest updates on our response in Ukraine, see our War in Ukraine page. “The severity, scale and speed of the war in Ukraine have created simply enormous needs and suffering,” says Dr Joanne Liu, an experienced paediatrician and member of the Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF) emergency response team who is just back from Ukraine. … Read more
On the morning of Friday 1 April, Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF) finalised the first transfer or patients using a medical train in Ukraine. Nine patients in serious but stable condition were transferred from a hospital in Zaporizhzhia, in the southeast of the country, to major referral hospitals in Lviv, following injuries from the war. The … Read more
Sasha, a long-time staff member of Doctors Without Borders/Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF) from Mariupol, Ukraine, describes life in the city as it was encircled and bombarded by Russian forces. For security reasons, he is using only his first name. I was born in Mariupol, and I have spent my whole life in Mariupol. I studied … Read more
Staff in the 750-bed Okhmatdyt paediatric hospital, one of the largest in central Kyiv, Ukraine, have received training and advice on mass casualty influxes (a large number of trauma patients arriving at the same time) from a visiting surgical team from Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF). The training held on Sunday 13 and Monday 14 March, included … Read more
On 24 June 2021, three Doctors Without Borders/Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF) staff members were killed in the Tigray region of Ethiopia. MSF has searched for answers to why they were killed and by whomever since. The New York Times has today published an article following an investigation of the murders. Paula Gil, the president of MSF Spain, issues the following … Read more
Aleksandr Burmin* is an MSF staff member in Ukraine. Here he recounts how war in Ukraine has displaced him for the second time in less than 10 years. As dawn broke on 24 February in Kyiv, Ukraine, I woke to the sound of explosions and the wails of air raid sirens. Huddled in my little apartment in the … Read more