Medical staff and patient killed in an attack on MSF-supported hospital

A hospital in northern Syria supported by Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF) has been hit in an aerial attack. Press Release - 31 Mar 2017

MSF teams in and around Mosul have received more than 1,800 patients in need of urgent or lifesaving care in the last two months. 1,500 of them needed treatment for conflict related trauma. As the scale of the non-trauma needs also became apparent, MSF opened maternity services in eastern Mosul at the beginning of February, and since then the teams have assisted 100 births and performed 80 C-sections.

Iraq

Thousands of wounded and sick coming from western Mosul

“The need for emergency medical care has risen drastically,” said Dr Isabelle Defourny, MSF director of operations. Press Release - 22 Mar 2017

MSF surgical team while finishing an operation in MSF supported hospital, the General Rural Hospital of Thi As Sufal District, Ibb governorate.

Yemen

A year of life-saving activities in Ibb

“Since the beginning of the war, medical needs in the country have exploded,” says Satoru Ida, MSF head of mission in Yemen. Press Release - 9 Mar 2017

An ambulance awaits at the entrance of the Haydan hospital. A pregnant woman who had arrived with complication is being referred to the main hospital in Sa’ada city.

Yemen

MSF resumes medical work in Haydan hospital

“The situation is worsening by the day in Yemen and people’s need for medical care keeps rising,” says Ghassan Abou Chaar, MSF representative in Yemen. Press Release - 2 Mar 2017

An Eritrean woman singing a prayer with other women and children after being rescued 02 September 2015 by the MSF MY Phoenix search and rescue vessel at sea.

Refugees, IDPs and people on the move

Dying to reach Europe: Insight into the desperate journeys Eritreans make to reach safety

"It is vital that the EU, Member States and other governments provide channels to safety and protection for Eritreans, and indeed all people fleeing conflict and persecution," said Arjan Hehenkamp, MSF General Director. Press Release - 27 Feb 2017

Footage of the market in Wau Shilluk after shelling on 28/01. Courtesy of Marta Cazorla.

South Sudan

Fleeing civilians cut off from emergency healthcare in Wau Shilluk

MSF is calling on all sides to ensure that the right of civilians to access emergency healthcare, clean water and food is guaranteed, and that medical facilities, staff and transport are not targeted. Press Release - 3 Feb 2017

In late March 2014, MSF inaugurated a post-operative care unit in Zaatari refugee camp, northeast of Amman. The space was opened as a step-down overflow facility for war-wounded Syrians referred from MSF’s Ramtha surgical project and other Jordanian hospitals to receive long-term rehabilitative and convalescent care. Jordan’s stringent decision to seal its borders with Syria completely on 21 June denied war-wounded Syrians access to Jordan. Despite the intensification of fighting between warring parties in southern Syria, Jordanian borders remain tightly sealed, leaving the severely-wounded Syrians and lifesaving cases with very slim chances to survive. Today, MSF’s facility in Zaatari stands nearly empty despite the growing medical needs at the other side of the Jordanian borders. To this end, MSF has regrettably decided to end all operations in its Zaatari facility while the number of war-wounded mounts behind the closed borders.

Jordan

Border closure forces MSF's clinic for war-wounded Syrians in Zaatari refugee camp to shut

Press Release - 7 Dec 2016

Destruction in Al Shaar neighbourhood, near M11 hospital, eastern Aleppo.

Syria

Latest attacks on east Aleppo hospitals leave medical care in tatters

Press Release - 15 Oct 2016

Jordan

Three months after border closure, hope for wounded Syrians fading fast

At least 59 war-wounded Syrians, including 11 children aged between three and 14 years old, have been denied medical evacuation into Jordan over the past three months. Press Release - 30 Sep 2016

Syria

MSF urges Syrian government and its allies to stop indiscriminate bombing in Aleppo

“Bombs are raining from Syria-led coalition planes and the whole of east Aleppo has become a giant kill box. The Syrian government must stop the indiscriminate bombing; and Russia as an indispensable political and military ally of Syria has the responsibility to exert the pressure to stop this,” says Xisco Villalonga, director of operations at MSF. Press Release - 30 Sep 2016

Four mothers posing in a corridor of the Hospital in Bili. All four of them are staying in the hospital with their child, that's suffering from a severe case of malaria. Since the beginning of the project in 2016, the pediatric ward already treated more than 4.000 cases of complicated/severe form of malaria.

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