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Syria, South Sudan, Yemen, Afghanistan, and more; health facilities have been attacked, looted and destroyed.

Patients have been killed in their beds; health workers have been attacked as they rescued the wounded. A hospital is where the most vulnerable, the sick and injured, gather in times of war. Attacks against medical facilities and health workers, whether deliberate or indiscriminate, are part of generalised violence and atrocities committed against civilians in armed conflict. They deprive people of health services, often when they need them the most.

 
Yemen: Ad Dhale Closure
Yemen

Projects in Ad Dhale close due to insecurity and threats

Press Release 7 Nov 2018
 
MSF in Al Dhale and Taiz, Yemen. July 2015
Yemen

MSF suspends activities after attack in Ad Dhale

Statement 2 Oct 2018
 
MSF hospital in Doro refugee camp
South Sudan

MSF suspends the majority of medical activities in Maban area after a violent attack

Statement 24 Jul 2018
 
Destroyed Ambulances in East Ghouta, Syria
Syria

Extraordinary mass-casualty influxes in East Ghouta as hospitals run short of life-saving medicines

Press Release 21 Feb 2018
 
Christelle Story - Batangafo
Central African Republic

Attacks on medical facilities leave people without options

Project Update 30 Jan 2018
 
Syria

MSF-supported hospital in Idlib closed after damage from airstrikes

Statement 29 Jan 2018
 
Al Gamhouri hospital in Hajjah city, damaged by airstrike
Yemen

Intense fighting and blockade further reduce access to healthcare

Press Release 6 Dec 2017
 
Mental Healthcare in Mweso
Democratic Republic of Congo

MSF strongly condemns violent robbery of compound in North Kivu

Project Update 4 Dec 2017
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