Name : Designation : Katie Treble, 31, is a doctor from the UK. She was working in the MSF hospital in Bria, Central African Republic, during the weekend of 24 to 26 March when heavy fighting occurred and MSF received 24 wounded people in three days. “The hospital’s small triage area was overwhelmed with patients, … Read more
Al Alam camp, near Tikrit, is home to about 8,000 women, children and men who have been displaced from their homes to the north by the ongoing conflict. The families have come here in search of safety and support, from towns and villages ravaged by conflict, where food, fuel and medicines are scarce. The camp … Read more
In the past weeks, MSF teams have witnessed summary executions and terror among civilians Bangui – As conflict spreads and intensifies in the Central African Republic (CAR), dozens of civilians are being killed and wounded. Thousands are being forced to flee for their lives and are receiving little to no humanitarian assistance, the international medical … Read more
In South Syria, fighting intensified in February and March as opposing forces vied for control of the city of Dara´a. As bombings and aerial attacks in Eastern Dara´a increased, hospitals and medical structures in the area were forced to close to avoid being targeted. The fighting has also resulted in a surge of 30,000 internally … Read more
A Doctors Without Borders / Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF) medical team providing support to the emergency department of Bab Al Hawa hospital, in Syria’s Idlib province, has confirmed that patients’ symptoms are consistent with exposure to a neurotoxic agent such as sarin gas. A number of victims of the attack on the town of Khan … Read more
Name : Designation : Two years after the conflict escalated, medical and humanitarian needs in the Arab country are huge and aid organisations have many problems providing assistance. Candelaria Lanusse (Buenos Aires, 1975), a nurse, is health adviser for Yemen at Doctors Without Borders / Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF). She has just returned from a … Read more
Name : Designation : As fighting intensifies to control the city of Raqqa, the city’s residents are once again caught in the middle. During six years of war, they have suffered bombing, fighting, persecution and public beheadings. Thousands have risked their lives to cross checkpoints and minefields to reach safer areas. Many of Syrians living … Read more
Name : Designation : Jonathan Whittall has been working in MSF’s newly opened field trauma hospital in a village to the south of Mosul for three weeks. The facility has received more than 1,296 patients since it opened on 16 February, around half of whom were women (261 patients) and children under the age of … Read more
A hospital in northern Syria supported by international medical organisation Doctors Without Borders/Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF) has been hit in an aerial attack, according to MSF. At around 6 pm on 25 March, Latamneh hospital in northern Hama governorate was targeted by a bomb dropped by a helicopter, which hit the entrance of the building. Information … Read more
Barcelona, 23 March, 2017 – The incursion of military and political actors in the humanitarian field is putting the provision of humanitarian aid at risk in Mali. This is the main conclusion of a report published today by Doctors Without Borders/Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF) which analyses the continuous and harmful instrumentalization of humanitarian aid in the … Read more