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Yemen: MSF releases detailed documentation of attacks on two medical facilities ahead of UNSC closed session on protection of medical mission

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Member states must advance concrete measures to protect access to medical care in conflict zones.   After conducting internal investigations, Doctors Without Borders / Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF) is releasing two reports describing attacks on medical facilities it runs or supports in Yemen. The two attacks combined resulted in the death of 20 people, most … Read more

East Aleppo: “We try to sleep for half an hour to gain the strength to perform another surgery”

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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

MSF: Latest attacks on east Aleppo hospitals leave medical care in tatters

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Airstrikes by Syrian and Russian forces have hit four hospitals in besieged east Aleppo in the past 24 hours, causing huge damage to one of them and injuring at least two doctors. The bombings also destroyed an ambulance and killed its driver Gaziantep/Amman, 15 October 2016 – Besieged east Aleppo’s struggling healthcare system suffered its worst day … Read more

MSF: Time is running out for the children of east Aleppo, who have no hope for the future

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Over the last three weeks, at least 321 children have been wounded in Syrian and Russian airstrikes. Medical authorities also fear a rise in the number of children suffering from water-borne diseases while medical supplies still can’t reach the besieged c Amman, 13 October 2016 – The indiscriminate bombing by Syrian and Russian forces is taking its … Read more

Dadaab, Kenya: Return of refugees to Somalia in current conditions ‘inhumane and irresponsible’

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As the announced closure of the world’s largest refugee camp draws closer, and thousands begin the return to war-ravaged Somalia,[1] Doctors Without Borders/ Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF) is calling for other alternatives to be urgently considered by the Government of Kenya and the UNHCR, supported by donor countries.  In a report released today by MSF, ‘Dadaab to … Read more

MSF: Reaching hospitals in besieged east Aleppo has become a danger in itself

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At least five ambulances hit by bombs in past month; the Directorate of Health reports that only 11 are working now for 250,000 people Amman, 11 October 2016 – The few remaining hospitals in east Aleppo, already overwhelmed  by the numbers of wounded, are facing yet another challenge: collecting people injured in the airstrikes. Just 11 ambulances … Read more