Name : Designation : Ahmed Mandal has worked with MSF’s medical team in Yemen as a general practitioner and intensivist. He tells us what is involved in running a busy emergency room in a mountainous region of the country. Medical team at Al Dhale, Yemen. Ahmed Mandal is second from left © MSF It was … Read more
It’s been almost one week since the Seleka opposition group took control of Bangui, capital city of Central African Republic. Here, Doctors Without Borders/Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF) coordinator Sylvain Groulx discusses the situation in the city, and the consequences that the fighting and looting might have on the population of the country—many of whom are … Read more
RABAT, MOROCCO/ MADRID/NEW YORK, MARCH 14, 2013—Migrants from sub-Saharan Africa are suffering a sharp increase in violence at the hands of security forces in Morocco and at border areas, resulting in serious health problems, the international medical humanitarian organization Doctors Without Borders/Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF) said today. A report released today by MSF, Trapped at the … Read more
PARIS/NEW YORK December 30, 2013 – Despite the presence of international armed forces in the capital of Central African Republic (CAR), fighting, lynchings and violent attacks remain a daily occurrence in Bangui, where the situation appears to be out of control, the international medical humanitarian organization Doctors Without Borders/Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF) said today. Since … Read more
NEW YORK, January 26, 2013 – Amid growing insecurity in Syria’s Aleppo region, all parties to the conflict must respect patients, medical staff, and health facilities, the international medical humanitarian organization Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF)/Doctors Without Borders said today. On January 24, a missile landed 800 meters from an MSF field hospital in the Aleppo … Read more
BRUSSELS/NEW YORK, January 17, 2013—As bombings and combat continue in multiple locations in Mali, the medical humanitarian organization Doctors Without Borders/Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF) calls on all parties to the conflict to authorize humanitarian organizations to enter the area of Konna and to allow aid to be provided in all areas affected by fighting. MSF … Read more
Thousands of people fleeing violence have taken refuge in the bush, living without proper shelter or safe drinking water, in parts of the Central African Republic (CAR). Médecins Sans Frontières/Doctors Without Borders (MSF) is providing emergency care and negotiating for access to areas where medical staff have fled and healthcare is no longer available. As … Read more
At least 20 people were killed and 99 were injured when warplanes bombed a market in Azaz, northern Syria on 13th January, according to the international medical organisation Médecins Sans Frontières/Doctors Without Borders (MSF). Twenty of the wounded, all of them civilians, were treated in an MSF medical facility. The attack on the market in … Read more
NAIROBI, KENYA, JANUARY 11, 2013—The medical humanitarian organization Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF) / Doctors Without Borders is providing psychological and medical support to traumatized survivors of conflict in the Tana Delta region of Kenya’s Coast Province. Beginning in August 2012, a series of violent clashes have killed and wounded hundreds of people and driven more … Read more
09/01/2013- In June, Médecins Sans Frontières(MSF) / Doctors Without Borders opened a hospital in the Idlib region in northern Syria, an area under rebel control. Located behind the front lines, the hospital has 15 beds and a staff of approximately 50, including 10 international MSF workers. Designed to perform war surgery, the facility also offers … Read more