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Medecins Sans Frontiers (MSF) Logicians and volunteers set up emergency shelter in Principovac close to the Serbian Croatian border.

MSF assists migrants and refugees at the border close to the Serbian town of Sid. Buses transport people to the Serbia/Croatian border but they often have to wait for many hours before they can proceed to the train station, from where a train takes them to Croatia.

MSF has a medical team which works in day and night shifts to provide medical care to the people. To protect people from freezing winter temperatures MSF is setting up large shelters. Which will temporarily house to up to 150 people each.
MSF logisticians and volunteers set up an emergency shelter in Principovac, close to the Serbian Croatian border. Croatia, 2015.
© Florian Lems/MSF
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MSF closed its projects in Croatia in 2015.

MSF has provided support to refugees in Croatia following different crises.

We worked with Bosnian refugees fleeing the Bosnian war in 1993 as Croatian health centres struggled to cope with the influx of people. We provided assistance in North Zadar, Gasinci and in Karlovac transit camp. Psychological assistance was a fundamental aspect of our response, as well as dispensing drugs. We closed our project with refugees in Gasinci in 1996 and continued working in Croatia until 1998.

In 2015, we returned to Croatia with two mobile clinics on the Serbia-Croatia border providing assistance to mostly Syrian refugees travelling north through Europe. 

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