Bangui – On Monday, an MSF mobile team finally succeeded to provide emergency medical care to the people who sought refuge in the Bangassou mosque. Amongst the 250 people there, MSF counted 25 wounded and provided first aid care to 10 before gunshots forced the MSF team to leave. Five of the wounded required surgical … Read more
Anaesthetist Deepa Kannadi went to South Sudan earlier this year for a short stint in an MSF hospital. Here’s her account of what it was like, in 5 images. 1. I had never travelled outside India, and I was going to a conflict zone for my first assignment. I had butterflies in my stomach. Many … Read more
Bangassou/Bangui – Following intense fighting that broke out this morning in Bangassou (Mbomou Province), Doctors Without Borders/Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF) is calling on all parties to agree to a ceasefire in order to access wounded people in urgent need of life-saving medical care. “In the space of a few hours, MSF treated 21 wounded people in … Read more
For more than three years, the ongoing conflict between Boko Haram and the armies in the Lake Chad region has taken a heavy toll on civilian populations. Many have fled their homes and left everything behind to find refuge in other villages and eventually across borders. In Diffa, which is in southeastern Niger and borders … Read more
Emergency trauma surgery is the beginning rather than the end of a long journey to recovery for those injured in Mosul. As such, MSF is running a 40-bed hospital in Hamdaniya, a town south of Mosul, to specifically cater for the needs of those recovering from surgery and attempting to rebuild their lives. This clinic … Read more
Brussels – 1 May 2017 – During the afternoon of 29 April, makeshift hospitals supported by the international humanitarian medical organisation Doctors Without Borders/Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF) were subject to outrageous breaches of respect as intense fighting erupted between armed opposition groups in the besieged Damascus suburbs of East Ghouta. As an ‘in-extremis’ measure to underscore … Read more
Juba – Over the last three days, close to 25,000 people have been displaced by intense fighting between the South Sudan People’s Liberation Army and the Agwelek forces around the town of Kodok. The humanitarian organisations that have up until now been providing essential medical services, water, food, non-food items and shelter have had to … Read more
Stuck between two mountains, Haydan is a remote village, lost in time. Some houses have the air of medieval fortresses; at their arrowslits, curious faces occasionally appear. Following the road leading into the village, which alternates between faded tarmac and dirt track, one imagines a place conducive to meditation, where telephone reception is random and … Read more
Name : Designation : The fighting continues in Libya, a country fragmented by a multitude of militias. In reality, Fayez el-Sarraj, who became Prime Minister over a year ago, governs only some areas in the west. He does not control the capital, where crime and violence committed by rival gangs and militias are widespread. Doctor … Read more
The hospital MSF opened in Qayyarah last December is 60 km south of Mosul. Far away enough not to hear the sound of airstrikes and rocket fire but sufficiently close for the wounded to be brought in when medical facilities nearer the front line are no longer able to cope. On February 18th, the Iraqi army … Read more