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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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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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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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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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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Governments make request to World Trade Organization (WTO) for intellectual property waiver for all countries until herd immunity reached.
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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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Two in three people seeking mental health support from MSF have symptoms of anxiety and depression.
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Northwest Syria is currently witnessing a sharp increase in the number of patients with COVID-19, which is now ten times higher than what it was just a month ago.
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Doctors Without Borders/Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF) is deeply concerned about the impact of ongoing severe flooding in Greater Pibor, South Sudan, which has displaced thousands of people and worsened an already devastating humanitarian emergency. MSF is urging organizations in the area to scale up their response to prevent further disaster. “When the fighting renewed in […]