Since 28 September 2015, MSF has been working at Umaru Shehu hospital in Borno State capital Maiduguri in northeast Nigeria, treating patients referred from smaller health facilities and providing care to people wounded during attacks. Project Update - 13 Oct 2015

Afghanistan

Factsheet: Kunduz Hospital Attack

From around 2:00-2:08am until 3:00-3:15am on Saturday, 3 October, MSF’s trauma hospital in Kunduz, Afghanistan came under precise and repeated airstrikes. Project Update - 7 Oct 2015

Yemen

Naji, landmine victim in Aden, Yemen

Project Update - 29 Sep 2015

Greece

MSF teams help create a transit camp for refugees arriving to Idomeni

A team of MSF logisticians has helped build a transit camp with the capacity to accommodate more than 1,000 people in the Idomeni area in Greece, close to the border with the Former Yugoslav Republic of Macedonia (FYROM). The structures will serve as a facility for the thousands of refugees and migrants that pass through the area every day.

MSF has set up four large 240 square metre tents and two tents of 45 square metres to be used for our medical activities. The camp is also equipped with basic sanitation facilities and water supply. Project Update - 26 Sep 2015

Mediterranean migration

People not numbers: a message from the Bourbon Argos

Simon Burroughs, MSF emergency coordinator onboard the Bourbon Argos, talking about the migrants' needs of water, food, shelter, medical care and protection. "We have to remember they are human beings, they are people just like you and me. They have needs, there has to be a better way that the way it is working now." Project Update - 23 Sep 2015

France

MSF helping 3,500 people stuck in Calais 'Jungle'

Approximately 3,500 exiles are living in a former garbage dump on the outskirts of Calais, France. The MSF team on site since 10 September is working with Médecins du Monde. “We are humanitarian aid workers and are used to providing aid to refugees in medical and health emergencies in Sudan, Ethiopia, Jordan and elsewhere, but the situation here has been particularly shocking,” says Pierre-Pascal Vandini, the MSF project coordinator. “People have been left to fend for themselves, law enforcement turns a blind eye to violence, there are not enough water stations or showers and no one is maintaining the scanty health infrastructure. It’s organized abandonment.” Project Update - 23 Sep 2015

South Sudan

MSF and UNICEF provide treatment to 16,000 children in mass malaria campaign in Bentiu PoC

“The malaria outbreak in the Bentiu camp is unprecedented in scope and has been claiming the lives of far too many children,” says Vanessa Cramond, MSF Medical Coordinator in Bentiu. “With the escalating morbidity and mortality witnessed in the under-five population, it was evident another response strategy was needed to reach those most at risk of death.” Project Update - 21 Sep 2015

Serbia

MSF reinforces activities after Hungary border closure

“Closing borders is not a solution, it just pushes responsibility to a neighbouring country and forces people to take more risks and makes their journey even harder, with a clear impact on their health” says Ana de Lemos, MSF project coordinator. “As long as conflicts continue in countries of origin, people will continue to be forced to become refugees, and they will continue to have to find ways out no matter the obstacles.” Project Update - 17 Sep 2015

Greece

MSF team providing psychological support and medical care to survivors of shipwreck off Farmakonisi island

On Sunday 13 September, a wooden boat carrying more than 130 refugees and migrants sank off the Greek island of Farmakonisi. An MSF team from Kos was sent to Leros immediately to provide mental health support and medical care to survivors. "People are shocked and terrified by the experience. There are people who lost their relatives, others who lost their children”, says Vangelis Orfanoudakis, MSF coordinator. Project Update - 15 Sep 2015

Central African Republic

MSF provides medical assistance for displaced people in Carnot

MSF is assisting the Ministry of Health with its Expanded Vaccination Programme in Carnot. MSF’s Dr Aubin Vergnes says it is crucial to act fast when there’s a risk of an epidemic. “In overcrowded conditions like these, just one case of measles can spread like wildfire to all the children in the camp, so the health authorities and MSF prepared the vaccination campaign in under three days.” Project Update - 14 Sep 2015

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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A new MSF emergency project in Maiduguri