At around 11:10 a.m. local time on Oct. 7, a 6.3-magnitude earthquake struck western Afghanistan, followed by several aftershocks. As of 7 p.m. local time, health authorities have confirmed 23 deaths, and 300 wounded people have been received at Herat Regional Hospital. Several aftershocks were experienced including one of 6.3 magnitude on Oct. 11. Doctors Without […]
Read More… from Afghanistan: MSF is responding to Herat earthquake
More than one million people have fled the fighting linked to the resurgence of the M23 armed group in North Kivu province in eastern Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC). Hundreds of thousands of them currently live in complete destitution in overcrowded camps in Goma, the provincial capital, and the surrounding area. Claire Magone, MSF-France’s Executive […]
Read More… from DRC: a “total dead end” for displaced people in Goma
Fouzia Bara is a French-Moroccan nurse with previous experience in psychological first aid (PFA). She has just returned from Morocco after two weeks as part of the Médecins Sans Frontières/Doctors Without Borders (MSF) emergency response team. She provided first psychological aid to the people in the most impacted villages. During her work in Morocco, Fouzia […]
Read More… from Morocco: Treating the invisible wounds as people rebuild their lives
Doctors Without Borders/Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF) is urgently calling for an improved medical and humanitarian response for people fleeing conflict in Sudan and entering South Sudan through Renk, a town located in the northernmost state of Upper Nile. Since the fighting erupted in Sudan, around 290,000 individuals have entered South Sudan — 80 per cent […]
Read More… from South Sudan : Malaria and malnutrition rise among returnees
The morning of Oct. 9, at around 7:20 a.m. shelling struck the MSF supported Al Nao hospital, in Omdurman, Khartoum. A shell hit Al Nao’s emergency department, killing two patient caretakers, and injuring five people, who were immediately referred to other facilities. As one of the last functioning hospitals in Omdurman, the hospital was treating […]
Despite Israeli announcements suggesting that there are safe areas for the population trapped in the Gaza Strip, they are in fact exposed to bombardment throughout all the territory, including in the south, where tens of thousands of people have fled following the ultimatum. As the Israeli army has been bombarding the Gaza Strip without restraint […]
Israel’s 24-hour notice that people in Northern Gaza must leave their land, homes and hospitals is outrageous – this represents an attack on medical care and on humanity. We have consistently seen dehumanising language and this violence is a manifestation of that. We are talking about more than a million human beings. ‘Unprecedented’ doesn’t even […]
Read More… from MSF states Israeli order to evacuate northern Gaza ‘outrageous’
Doctors Without Borders/Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF) is donating medical supplies to hospitals and health facilities in Gaza to respond to medical needs in the midst of the conflict that began yesterday. “Health facilities need this equipment because of the many injured patients,” said Ayman Al-Djaroucha, MSF deputy coordinator in Gaza. “Hospitals are overcrowded with injured […]
Read More… from Gaza: MSF provides medical care and donates supplies amidst conflict
Doctors Without Borders/Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF) is horrified by the brutal mass killing of civilians perpetrated by Hamas, and by the massive attacks on Gaza now being pursued by Israel. MSF calls for an immediate cessation to the indiscriminate bloodshed, the establishment of safe spaces and safe passage for people to reach them as a […]
Read More… from MSF: Indiscriminate violence and the collective punishment of Gaza must cease
First-person account by Léo Cans, MSF country director, Palestine (based in Jerusalem) “The situation in Gaza is catastrophic; the hospitals are overwhelmed. The number of wounded is extremely high – there is a constant influx into all the hospitals in the Gaza Strip. The medical teams are exhausted, working around the clock to treat the […]