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topic: Conflict/Violence

Syria:Extraordinary mass-casualty influxes in East Ghouta as hospitals and clinics run short of life-saving medicines

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Brussels – Mass casualty influxes, with hundreds of dead and wounded, have been reported to Doctors Without Borders/Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF) by medical facilities the medical aid organisation supports in the opposition-controlled East Ghouta besieged enclave near Damascus in Syria. This comes amid an extraordinary increase in bombing and shelling over the area, with 13 … Read more

Syria: situation in the northwest is quickly going from very bad to worse

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Omar Ahmed Abenza, MSF head of mission for northwestern Syria, gives an overview of the situation today in this fraught region. “Yesterday a health centre in Mishmishan in northwestern Syria’s Idlib region was hit by an airstrike. This is another step towards disaster in this troubled zone. Once again, this bombing is completely outrageous and … Read more

Syria: MSF-supported hospital in Idlib closed after damage from airstrikes

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A hospital in northern Syria supported by Doctors Without Borders/Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF) has been hit in an aerial attack. At around 10:20 am on Monday 29 January, Owdai hospital (also known as Al Ihsan hospital) in Saraqab City in Idlib Governorate was damaged by two airstrikes, which destroyed part of the hospital building according … Read more

Bangladesh: Update on MSF activities in Cox’s Bazar

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Number of health facilities: 15 health posts, three primary health centres and five inpatient health facilities Number of staff: More than 2,000 national and international staff as of the end of November Number of patients: More than 200,000 patients have been treated at MSF outpatient facilities and 4,938 patients in inpatient facilities between the end of August and … Read more

Syria: 33 blast victims treated by MSF in Raqqa in the first week of 2018

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In the first week of the year, 33 patients with blast-related injuries – 13 of whom were below the age of  18 – were treated by Doctors Without Borders/Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF) medical teams in Raqqa city. Patients sustain these injuries on returning to their homes in the city, which is littered with unexploded remnants of … Read more

Jordan: “Managing complicated wounds proved much easier than saying a simple goodbye”

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Name : Designation : Orthopaedic surgeon Mukul Singhal recently returned from Jordan, where MSF provides medical and psychological care to war-wounded patients from Syria I heard hundreds of stories – stories both beautiful and barbaric – while treating war-wounded patients from Syria during my first assignment with MSF in Jordan. But this story ought to … Read more

Central African Republic: 13 wounded and thousands of people displaced by fighting north of Paoua

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Members of Revolution and Justice (RJ) and fighters belonging to the Movement for the Liberation of the Central African Republic People (MNLC) have been engaged in violent clashes since December 27, 2017. About 30 000 people have fled the fighting in the area to take refuge in the town of Paoua. They tell of torched villages, … Read more

Yemen: Intense fighting and blockade further reduces access to healthcare

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Sana’a/Hajjah – A week of heavy violence, coupled with a crippling blockade preventing vital supplies into the country, shows new levels of disregard by warring parties for the civilian population, medical facilities and patients, says the international medical organization Doctors Without Borders/Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF). Heavy street fighting and renewed airstrikes since 29 November have paralysed … Read more