“In Italy there is no interview to talk about our problems, or about why we left home. They just want us to be fingerprinted by force; but we are human beings.” Project Update - 3 Aug 2017

MSF cleaner while spreading chlorination at the shoes of one of the nurses as he was getting out of the cholera treatment center. This is one of the precautions taken to prevent the spread of the cholera outside the center.

Yemen

Crisis update – July 2017

The conflict in Yemen, which escalated in March 2015, has led to a full-blown humanitarian emergency. Project Update - 3 Aug 2017

The operational theatre after a surgery conducted in Tal Abyad general hospital, which MSF is working in partnership with the health authorities to support the hospital, Northern Syrian.

Syria

Raqqa’s besieged residents deprived of urgent medical care

“Patients tell us large numbers of sick and wounded people are trapped inside Raqqa city with little or no access to medical care and scant chance of escaping the city” Project Update - 31 Jul 2017

Mary in clinic with her son David.
“All I was able to take with me was one jerry can,” says Mary, who is sitting in the waiting area of the MSF clinic that was setup within days of the fighting. She holds her sick two-year-old son David in her arms as she explains that her house has been burnt and she had to beg for plastic sheeting while inside the camp so that her family of six could have any shelter at all. With her house in town destroyed and all her possessions stolen, her family’s future is not clear. “We have nothing to build a new house with,” she says.

South Sudan

Malnutrition on the rise in Pibor

The number of children suffering from acute malnutrition around the town of Pibor has trebled in a year and is likely to rise. Project Update - 5 Jul 2017

Democratic Republic of Congo

MSF provides emergency medical care in conflict-affected Kasai region

Since 10 May, MSF has cared for 198 patients in its emergency department in Kananga, a city of 750,000 people in Kasai Central region. Project Update - 5 Jul 2017

Ahmed gingerly moves his left foot, up and down slowly, while lying in Al Taheel Hospital, in eastern Mosul. Three weeks ago, even these small movements were almost impossible. Since arriving to MSF`s Al Taheel hospital, Ahmed has received a series of surgeries and post-operative care for injuries sustained over four months ago in an explosion outside of his home. Four of his neighbours were killed in the blast, but survivors carried him to a nearby hospital. There, Ahmed received emergency surgery to stabilize his condition. But shortly after, the hospital was hit in an airstrike. Despite his precarious medical condition, Ahmed was able to flee the embattled hospital to a relative’s house. But he could not make it to another medical facility for weeks due to the fighting that raged around him.

Iraq

A difficult journey of healing for war-wounded residents in Mosul

“I was completely paralysed – there was no hope left in my case.” Project Update - 3 Jul 2017

Somalia

MSF resumes medical activities

Nearly four years after withdrawing its teams from Somalia, MSF has started treating patients again in the country. Project Update - 23 Jun 2017

An MSF medical team is working together with MoH staff in the cholera treatment center in Al-Sadaqa hospital in Aden.
Besides the medical support, MSF logistic team has repaired the center as the building had been abandoned for two years after the war. MSF proceeded to emergency rehabilitation as it required heavy cleaning work, electricity, water system repairs as well as installing air conditions. Considering the hot and humid weather during the summer, heat becomes an issue in any health structure in the coast, most especially when it comes to hospitalise severely dehydrated patients.

Yemen

Cholera continues to spread

The number of suspected cholera cases reported by WHO and national health authorities in Yemen has escalated. Project Update - 21 Jun 2017

Diffa town, the maternal and paediatric health centre. Kaka Wali, seen here, is 20 years old. Kaka was discharged from the hospital two weeks ago. As part of her medical follow-up she is having a medical consultation with Dr Camara Broulaye. Last May, she was admitted to the intensive care unit due to severe complications related to hepatitis E. She suffered a miscarriage whilst in a coma. In addition to medical care, Kaka also received mental health support.

Niger

Hepatitis E outbreak in Diffa – 186 pregnant women admitted to hospital

The hepatitis E outbreak declared two months ago in southeastern Niger is particularly affecting pregnant women. Project Update - 19 Jun 2017

Iraq

Mental health needs mount after years of war

Iraq’s recent history has been dominated by wars. Generations of Iraqis have grown up in shattered families, living in camps or among the rubble of their home towns. Each conflict has left its scars, both visible and invisible. Project Update - 15 Jun 2017

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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