Name : Designation : “The siege has been bad, but we didn’t fear it as much as we fear the bombs. My name is Umm Leen, I’m a mother of seven and I’ve never been outside east Aleppo, from the day I was born until now. My eldest daughter is 16. She was six months … Read more
Renewed intense conflict through late November in besieged areas near Damascus and Homs has led to significant increases in mass casualty influxes, says the international medical humanitarian organisation Doctors Without Borders/Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF). Multiple airstrikes hit East Ghouta again today; medics in the area are reporting many casualties including women and children, but the … Read more
19 November 2016 – The only specialised paediatric hospital in besieged east Aleppo has come under attack for the second time since airstrikes resumed on 15 November, destroying three floors and leaving it out of service. Three other hospitals have also taken direct hits, resulting in casualties amongst staff and patients, and leaving two key surgical hospitals and … Read more
Name : Designation : Zita, 23, and her daughter Marie, 2 years old Zita came to the Kabo health centre, in the north of CAR, 10 days ago. She came with her two daughters Marie, two years old, and Nelpha, five months. They come from Ngoumouru, about 50 km from Kabo, where there is no health post. They walked … Read more
As the siege of east Aleppo enters its fourth month, how are medical staff coping? Doctors in east Aleppo are working in extraordinarily difficult circumstances, including shortages of health staff, fuel, drugs and medical supplies. As they treat the wounded, their own hospitals have been hit by airstrikes. Each of the eight hospitals that were … Read more
International medical organisation Doctors Without Borders/ Médecins Sans Frontiéres (MSF) marked the one-year anniversary on November 7, of its Mother and Child Hospital (MCH) in Taiz, Yemen, with the birth of 24 babies. The figure represents “a new record for childbirths,” says Georgina Brown, MSF’s medical team leader in Taiz. “The maternity ward was so … Read more
“I came to Uganda because of the violence in South Sudan. My next door neighbours were dragged from their home by men, kidnapped and chopped into pieces. Other families were taken and I was worried I would be next,” says 37-year-old Rose, from Greater Equatoria Region in South Sudan, who arrived in Uganda with her … Read more
Many of the people trapped in east Aleppo are under 18. The three-month-long siege and weeks of bombing and ground fighting have had a devastating impact on their health “Sometimes they have to wait all night long and when they do arrive, it is too late or it has been too damaging for the children,” says … Read more
It was just after lunch on a day in late September. Nine-year-old Abdul Hadi was playing in front of his house in east Aleppo when a barrel bomb fell from the sky. Abdul Hadi was knocked unconscious and sustained injuries to his head. Days later, Syrian and Russian forces would step up their bombing campaign … Read more
With intensive care units full and medical supplies running out, east Aleppo’s seven hospitals cannot cope for much longer, says surgeon Dr Abu Huthaifa “We’ve got used to the daily scenes following a mass bombing, when the hospitals are so crowded with the wounded that we have to step over them to reach other patients … Read more