Médecins Sans Frontières/Doctors Without Borders (MSF) has resumed medical activities at its maternity hospital in Khost Province, Afghanistan, which were suspended following an explosion in the hospital in April, 2012. 02/01/2013 The reopening follows the demonstration of strong support to MSF, and reassurance over the last few months by the local community and all relevant … Read more
December 29, 2012 – It is with great sadness that Doctors Without Borders / Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF) remembers that one year has passed since our two colleagues, Philippe Havet and Andrias Karel Keiluhu (“Kace”), were brutally murdered in Mogadishu. Philippe, a 53-year-old emergency coordinator from Belgium, and Kace, a 44-year-old medical doctor from Indonesia, … Read more
DECEMBER 20, 2012-Regardless of the parties or individuals responsible for the recent escalation of attacks against health workers in Pakistan, both patients and medical workers risk losing their lives while seeking or providing health care, the international organization Doctors Without Borders / Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF) said today. As a medical humanitarian organization working in … Read more
Paris, 12 December 2012 — Tens of thousands of people, many of them wounded, are trapped in the city of Deir Azzour, eastern Syria, due to intense fighting and aerial bombardments. Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF) calls for the sick and wounded to be evacuated to safer locations and for international medical teams to be given … Read more
07 December 2012 – The impact of violence in Central America and Mexico cannot be understated. Widespread violence and its dramatic medical consequences are threatening to become a humanitarian crisis, while health systems – already underfunded and short of medical staff – are unable to cope. The lack of adapted policies to respond to this … Read more
Médecins Sans Frontieres/Doctors without Borders is completing distribution of Non Food Items (NFI) kits to communities impacted by recent violent clashes in Assam. Riots between two communities were first reported in July 2012 and soon flared into a major humanitarian crisis which left more than 90 people dead and over 400.000 displaced For months the … Read more
KABUL/NEW YORK, SEPTEMBER 10, 2012—Following a major explosion today in the city of Kunduz in northern Afghanistan, more than two dozen people arrived at a surgical hospital run by the international medical humanitarian organization Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF) / Doctors Without Borders. Thirteen people who suffered severe blast injuries were dead on arrival at the … Read more
Last June riots erupted in Osh, in southern Kyrgyzstan, killing at least 400 people and injuring thousands more. MSF teams provided medical care and assistance to many of the injured. xxxxxxxxxxxx helped one young man who escaped death by leaping from a sixth floor window During my mission in Osh, I was called to see … Read more