MSF has delivered a petition with more than 91,000 signatures to Canada’s Minister of Health, the Hon. Patty Hajdu.
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Idlib, Northwest Syria: Dozens of casualties treated following airstrike
On the morning of Monday, October 26, an airstrike hit an area in the north of Idlib governorate (Syria). Local media outlets have reported more than 75 deaths and another 135 casualties so far. The vast majority of the injured people were immediately transferred to two hospitals, one of which is a facility co-managed by […]
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Lives on the line of legal appeal lodged to free Sea-Watch 4
More than a month since the search and rescue vessel Sea-Watch 4 was detained in Palermo, Italy, administrative blockages continue to prevent the vessel from returning to the central Mediterranean – said Doctors Without Borders/Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF) today. The comments come as a legal appeal is lodged by Sea-Watch, the ship’s owners, with an […]
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South-West Cameroon: MSF responds to school shooting in Kumba
Following October 24’s school shooting in Kumba, South-West Cameroon, Doctors Without Borders/Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF) launched a mass casualty plan, responding with our ambulance service and surgical care in the Presbyterian General Hospital (PGH), Kumba. MSF received a total of ten patients between the ages of 10 and 15. Of these patients, five were referred to […]
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Venezuela: MSF teams improve conditions in quarantine centres
Most of the thousands of migrants returning to Venezuela arrive in the border state of Táchira, where the government has set up some 28 quarantine centres in former schools or sports halls.
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Sea-Watch 4: Unheard journeys from the Mediterranean Sea
By Ilina Angelova, Humanitarian Affairs Officer for MSF on board the search and rescue ship Sea-Watch 4 in August and September 2020.
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Mental Health in Burkina Faso: The invisible scars of violence
It was a Monday evening in July when armed men came to Fondioaga village in eastern Burkina Faso and killed a community member. The next morning they came back, murdering a second man, before continuing their killing spree in a neighbouring village. “That was when we realized that if we stayed, they would kill everyone. […]
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‘They asked me to tell their story’: 52 war-wounded patients arrive within 4 days
This is the first-hand account from Marianna Cortesi, hospital coordinator at the MSF-supported Boost provincial hospital in Helmand province, southern Afghanistan.
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India and South Africa propose no patents on COVID-19 medicines and tools during pandemic
Governments make request to World Trade Organization (WTO) for intellectual property waiver for all countries until herd immunity reached.
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Greek Islands: Call to end containment policies causing cycle of abuse
One month after the fires that destroyed Moria refugee camp, and despite public promises from EU Commissioners that there would be “no more Morias”, more than 7,500 people are still trapped in inhumane conditions in a newly built camp in Lesvos. Thousands more, including 7,000 children, continue to live in other undignified and unsafe camps […]
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