Despite weeks of intense negotiations with Houthi officials, stocks of essential medical supplies cannot be delivered to two hospitals in a besieged enclave of the city of Taiz, in southern Yemen. Today MSF’s trucks have been stopped again at Houthi’s checkpoints and denied access to the area. Press Release - 25 Oct 2015

Iron roofing and rubble litter a corridor in the MSF Kunduz Trauma Centre as the facility lies destroyed following the 03 October aerial attack which killed 22 staff and patients in northern Afghanistan.

The bomb blasts were so strong that the corrugated iron roof caved in here in the blood laboratory corridor, and elsewhere in the hospital building.

Afghanistan

Death toll from the MSF hospital attack in Kunduz still rising

As of 23 October the revised figures now stand at 13 MSF staff dead and 1 MSF staff presumed dead, 10 patients dead and 2 patients presumed dead. Efforts are ongoing to determine the identities of seven other unrecognisable bodies found in the wreck of the hospital, all of whom have now been buried. These unfortunately may not be final numbers. Crisis Update - 23 Oct 2015

Palestine

MSF attends five times more patients than in regular activities after peak in violence

Since 2 October, MSF teams haves provided mental health psycho-social services to around 521 patients with 40 group psycho-educations sessions at community level and 95 psychological first aid services. Project Update - 22 Oct 2015

Syria

Crisis Update - October 2015

What was an already dismal situation for millions trapped by conflict in Syria at the beginning of 2015 deteriorated further throughout the year, pushing hundreds of thousands of people to make the hard decision to make a dangerous and sometimes deadly crossing into Europe Crisis Update - 22 Oct 2015

Kunduz hospital attack

MSF launches petition drive for Afghanistan attack investigation

U.S. urged to consent to international inquiry into devastating airstrikes on MSF hospital in Kunduz. Press Release - 15 Oct 2015

Kunduz hospital attack

IHFFC awaits US, Afghanistan consent to proceed with independent investigation

“We have received apologies and condolences, but this is not enough. We are still in the dark about why a well-known hospital full of patients and medical staff was repeatedly bombarded for more than an hour,” said Dr Joanne Liu, MSF International President. Statement - 14 Oct 2015

Fires burn in the MSF emergency trauma hospital in Kunduz, Afghanistan, after it was hit and partially destroyed by missiles 03 October 2015.

Kunduz hospital attack

MSF under attack in Kunduz

Learn about MSF's hospital in Kunduz, the people it treated, and the terrible attack that killed twelve staff and at least 10 patients. Photo Story - 12 Oct 2015

Qudus brought his four year old dauger khal Bibi in after she fell through the roof of their home and injured her leg. At Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF) Kunduz Trauma Centre where free treatment is provided to patients regardless of their political affiliation (ie. the side on which the fight in the war between the armed opposition group and Government forces) MSF’s trauma centre is the only facility of its kind in the whole north-eastern region of Afghanistan providing high level life- and limb-saving trauma care. MSF opened Kunduz Trauma Centre in August 2011 to provide high quality, free medical and surgical care to victims of trauma such as traffic accidents, as well as those with conflict related injuries from bomb blasts or gunshots.

Kunduz hospital attack

The patients and stories of MSF's Kunduz hospital

Pictures from Kunduz Trauma Centre, partially destroyed by an airstrike on 3 October 2015. Photo Story - 7 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

Afghanistan

MSF calls for State activation of the International Humanitarian Fact-Finding Commission to investigate Afghanistan bombing

Speech delivered by Dr Joanne Liu, MSF International President, 7 October 2015, Palais des Nations, Geneva, Switzerland
Speech - 7 Oct 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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Medical aid blocked from entering besieged area in Taiz

Death toll from the MSF hospital attack in Kunduz still rising

MSF attends five times more patients than in regular activities after peak in violence

Crisis Update - October 2015

MSF launches petition drive for Afghanistan attack investigation

IHFFC awaits US, Afghanistan consent to proceed with independent investigation

MSF under attack in Kunduz

The patients and stories of MSF's Kunduz hospital

Factsheet: Kunduz Hospital Attack

MSF calls for State activation of the International Humanitarian Fact-Finding Commission to investigate Afghanistan bombing

Independent medical humanitarian assistance

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