Nurses without limits

On International Nurses Day, MSF celebrates the work, dedication and passion of its 8,843 nurses saving lives around the world. Project Update - 9 May 2018

Syria

Thousands of displaced kids in Aleppo catch up on vaccinations

Since 2016, the countryside west of Aleppo, in northern Syria, has been one of the main destinations for internally displaced people (IDPs) evacuated from besieged areas, including East Aleppo City, Homs, South Hama and, recently, East Ghouta.
Project Update - 7 May 2018

Fajimatou is 33 years old and has four children. She had been suffering from an obstetric fistula for three years ever since her last child was born. Thanks to the listening space set up in her village, she finally had the confidence to speak openly about her pain and MSF was able to help her get the necessary surgery.

Niger

In Diffa, listening spaces have been set up for and by women from the community

Three years ago, Fajimatou gave birth to her fourth child. Since then, she had been suffering from incontinence and regular urinary infections. Too embarrassed to raise this problem with the staff at the health post, she had kept it to herself. When she heard about the listening space for women set up by MSF in her village, it was a real relief. msf.lu - 4 May 2018

Newly displaced people carrying their belongings set foot inside the hospital compound where most of the people arriving in Pulka first settle.
More than 42,000 people are estimated to be living in Pulka now, according to local authorities. They are made up of internally displaced persons (IDPs), returnees and members of the host community who did not flee when Boko Haram attacked the town.
Since January, Pulka has registered more than 11,300 new arrivals.
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Nigeria

Parched Pulka searches for water

Amidst the conflict in Pulka, north-east Nigeria, displaced people struggle to access basic amenities like safe water. Project Update - 27 Apr 2018

Al Zara from Mainok (often under attack by Boko Haram) accompanied her daughter in law and her two grand-childdren after being referred to intensive care by MSF form ATFC in Benicheickh. They arrived the day before and both children were diagnose with severe malnutrition. Al Zara' son father of the two girls died during Boko Haram attack.

Nigeria

Treating malnourished children in Beni Shiekh

Project Update - 25 Apr 2018

In Alqsa Hospital, MSF team of surgeon, anesthesiologist and OT nurse, support the team of the local hospital with the massive influx of injured due to gunshots

Palestine

MSF teams in Gaza observe unusually severe and devastating gunshot injuries

Since 1 April, MSF teams in Gaza, Palestine, have provided post-operative care to more than 500 people injured by gunshots during the March of Return demonstrations. Project Update - 19 Apr 2018

Chantier de l’hôpital MSF : préparation du béton devant servir à couler la dalle.
L’ hôpital de 100 lits que MSF a construit au milieu du camp de Kutupalong-Balukhali où vivent les réfugiés rohingya, est ouvert depuis le 14 avril.

Construction site of the MSF hospital: mixing of the concrete to be used to pour the slab.
MSF has built a 100 bed hospital in the middle of the Kutupalong-Balukhali camp which opened on April 14.

Bangladesh

The hospital on the hill providing care to Rohingya refugees

MSF has opened a new hospital in the heart of vast Kutupalong-Balukhali camp, which provides refuge to some 700,000 Rohingya refugees in Bangladesh. Not hard to find, as it is on one of the many hills that form the landscape of Cox’s Bazar, its name says it all: ‘The hospital on the hill’. It is the third MSF facility opened in the district of Cox’s Bazar since the end of March. Project Update - 16 Apr 2018

Mali

Vaccinating 10,000 children over 60,000km of desert roads

The vast, desert region of Kidal in northern Mali, south of the Sahara, is home to nomadic populations frequently living far from health facilities. In 2018, Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF) launched its first multi-antigen campaign in Mali, aiming to vaccinate 10,000 children against a variety of common illnesses. Project Update - 9 Apr 2018

Rwanda

Remembering the genocide more than 20 years on

More than two decades since the 1994 genocide, Rwandan fieldworkers tell us about the experiences that motivated them to join MSF. Project Update - 6 Apr 2018

Yemen

Yemen: A timeline of more than three years of war

A timeline of more than three years of war Project Update - 4 Apr 2018

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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