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Tuberculosis
EndTB: Bedaquiline- and delamanid- containing regimens achieve excellent interim treatment response without safety concerns
endtb.org
13 Jul 2018
Tuberculosis
TB Online: Activists call on Johnson & Johnson to drop the price of bedaquiline
tbonline.info
13 Jul 2018
Mediterranean migration
Drowning skyrockets as European governments block humanitarian assistance on Central Mediterranean
Press Release
12 Jul 2018
DRC Ebola outbreaks
“Congolese health workers have shown an amazing commitment to fighting Ebola”
Voices from the Field
11 Jul 2018
Ethiopia
Fighting stigma and providing mental health to Eritrean refugees
Voices from the Field
10 Jul 2018
![Nashwan, 42, is prepared for surgery at the Médecins Sans Frontières / Doctors Without Borders (MSF) post-operative care facility in east Mosul. Nashwan is one of the many war-wounded patients still trying to recover a year after the conflict in Mosul officially ended.
“On 11 March 2017, our neighbourhood was retaken [from the Islamic State group],” Nashwan recalls. “Two days later, we went out to buy food and we were happy. But fighting was continuing in the neighbourhoods around ours. There was a tall building nearby and there was a sniper on top. He started hunting us down. My neighbour was shot in the head and killed. My brother was shot in the leg. The sniper shot me in the back and in the leg.”
Nashwan went to several hospitals outside Mosul for treatment. He then returned to his home in west Mosul where the conflict was still raging.
“I waited in my home for several months for the bombs to stop,” he says. “When I was at home during these seven months the pain started to grow in my leg and hip, and eventually it became unbearable. So in October 2017 I went to the general hospital in west Mosul. They did x-rays and tests and they said I needed a huge operation and they didn't have the capacity to do the operation.”
Nashwan’s neighbours helped him pay for a private doctor to do the operation, but it was unsuccessful and Nashwan was soon in agonising pain again. He was forced to go back to the general hospital, which then referred him to MSF’s surgery and post-operative care facility in east Mosul.
“Life has been really hard. My injury has had a negative impact on my life - my family, the way I interact with my kids. I can’t play with them. I can't work and we haven’t had an income. I've been really depressed and I cannot talk to people. Even to go to the bathroom I need someone to come with me. And I need the crutches to go everywhere. It's been really hard for me. But thankfully the hardest part has passed now that I am here.”
The MSF facility provides free surgeries, post-operative care, rehabilitation and mental healthcare, especially for war-wounded patients. MSF works closely with local health authorities to refer the most urgent patients for care.
The facility is run by a team of 30 highly qualified international and Iraqi medical experts and has a 33-bed capacity.](https://img.msf.org/AssetLink/11n5mc8084ew76c43umrm13pb0jh3a6r.jpg "Nashwan - war wounded - Mosul")
Iraq
The agony of Mosul’s war wounded: “I've had about 15 operations on my leg so far.”
Voices from the Field
9 Jul 2018
El Salvador
MSF facilitates access to healthcare in communities of San Salvador and Soyapango
Project Update
3 Jul 2018
Mediterranean migration
European government policies condemn people to be locked up in Libya or drown at sea
Press Release
29 Jun 2018
Mental health
Visible and invisible wounds – MSF treats survivors of torture
Voices from the Field
26 Jun 2018
Yemen
“Our concern is that fighting could turn Hodeidah into a besieged city”
Voices from the Field
26 Jun 2018
Central African Republic
Ongoing fears of outbursts of violence in Bambari hamper access to healthcare
Voices from the Field
26 Jun 2018
Eswatini
MSF hands over its Manzini project, while continuing activities in Shiselweni
Statement
25 Jun 2018
How we work
How we deliver medical humanitarian assistance
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