It has been one year since the humanitarian medical organisation Doctors Without Borders/ Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF) started providing life-saving health services at the General Rural Hospital of Thi As Sufal District in Ibb governorate. The General Rural Hospital of Thi As Sufal, locally known as Al-Kaida Hospital, is one of the numerous health facilities … Read more
Sana’a, – Six months after withdrawing its staff from northern Yemen following the bombing of its hospital in Abs, Doctors Without Borders/Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF) has restarted work in Haydan district hospital, in Sa’ada governorate. Following the 15 August airstrike on Abs hospital which killed 19 people and injured 24 and in the wake of a row of attacks … Read more
Name : Designation : In Leer and Mayendit counties, in the central part of South Sudan, people are constantly being forced to flee the shifting frontlines of the fighting. After its hospital in Leer was repeatedly attacked, MSF realised it needed new ways to provide them with medical care. British doctor Philippa Pett describes how … Read more
21 February 2017, Juba – The protracted conflict in South Sudan’s Mayendit and Leer counties is having a profound effect on the local population, says international medical organisation Doctors Without Borders/Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF). Men, women, and children are regularly forced to flee their homes to escape fighting and struggle to access essentials, including food, water … Read more
My family worried about me every time they heard somebody exclaim: “Nishanth has gone to Yemen? Of all the places in the world to work, why did he choose to go there?” My parents never told me this when I was there but I got to know from others in the family that this was … Read more
Nearly 100 medical facilities belonging to, or supported by, Doctors Without Borders/Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF) have been bombed since 2015. The vast majority were in Syria, the others in Yemen, Afghanistan, Ukraine and Sudan. MSF considers it vital to establish the facts and ascertain who was responsible for each of the bombings so that it can continue – with at least … Read more
Name : Designation : When war escalated in Yemen, Sana was abroad, having just qualified as a doctor. Hearing the news, she felt compelled to return to Taiz, scene of some of the conflict’s fiercest fighting. Now she works in the malnutrition ward of MSF’s Mother and Child hospital in the divided city. “I had … Read more
Name : Designation : Christopher McAleer, an MSF logistician, is just back from Taiz, Yemen’s third largest city, on the frontline of the war. “Taiz has seen some of the heaviest fighting in the recent conflict. There are airstrikes going on, and constant indiscriminate shellfire, both into and out of the city. The shelling often hits … Read more
The brutal crisis in the Central African Republic has gone on largely unnoticed internationally except, maybe, for this one iconic image: a sea of displaced people huddled in the hulls of abandoned, rusty planes. This was Mpoko international airport, in the capital Bangui. At its peak, 100.000 people lived in this camp. Those who couldn’t … Read more
Name : Designation : Baba, 37, is one of the dozens people wounded during last Tuesday’s airstrikes in Rann, Northern Nigeria. He is now being treated in Maiduguri. He lived in Rann since he had to flee from his home village of Kala, 10 months ago. “When the first bombing happened, I was far from … Read more