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MSF Doctor Nora Echaibi works on logistics and budget for the day at the office, on July 22, 2015. MSF supports a couple of  health facilities and hospitals  in Qataba with international staff, medication, extra local staff support, and equipment.
Yemen

Struggling for oxygen inside the besieged Taiz Enclave

Nora Echaibi is a nurse with MSF. She has been in Yemen since April 2015 working in Aden, Sana’a, Qataba, Ad-Dhale and now Taiz. Project Update - 8 Jan 2016
 
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Syria

Siege and starvation in Madaya immediate medical evacuations and medical resupply essential to save lives

Immediate medical evacuations and medical resupply essential to save lives Press Release - 7 Jan 2016
 
Abdul 11 month, has been admitted for malnutrition in the MSF center of intensive nutritional treatment in Gwange (district of Maiduguri). His family fled to Mafa. She is host by parents in Maiduguri. The displaced people living among the host community do not receive food help.
Nigeria

MSF begins surgical activities in the city of Maiduguri, treating victims of a large attack.

In response to recent attacks that caused many injuries, MSF began performing trauma surgery at the hospital on 28 December. Project Update - 6 Jan 2016
 
Peter Gatlek (50) sits on a hospital bed after receiving new bandages at the MSF hospital in Lankien. He was shot in the head while trying to escape an attack on his village near Leer 25 days ago. Peter was finally med-evacuated to a MSF hospital. When talking about the experience he says: 'They just came and attacked our village. I just ran away and hid myself in the swamp. Some people who ran with me were wounded. Some were killed.’
South Sudan

Crisis Update, December 2015

Conflict broke out in South Sudan in December 2013 when President Salva Kiir accused Vice President Riek Machar of plotting a coup. Crisis Update - 30 Dec 2015
 
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Yemen

Crisis update – 23 December 2015

The human cost of the conflict keeps on increasing since the beginning of the conflict. Since March 19, MSF have been active in 8 governorates in which 20,539 war wounded people have been treated in MSF supported hospitals and health facilities. Crisis Update - 23 Dec 2015
 
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Yemen

“We can’t just stop our lives because of the war”

Interview with Céline Langlois, Medical Coordinator in Yemen. Céline explains how Yemenis cope with their daily struggle in this indiscriminate war. During five months in Yemen, Celine was astonished by people’s ability to get on with their lives amidst airstrikes and a desperate fuel and water crisis. Voices from the Field - 22 Dec 2015
 
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Syria

“Life in Raqqa was terrifying. During the day we lived with the government’s airstrikes; at night there were coalition airstrikes”

“I was a paediatric doctor in Syria, married with two children. We lived in Raqqa, now known as the stronghold of ISIS. I ran a private clinic in a poor area of the city, as well as providing free healthcare to displaced people who had fled there from Homs and Aleppo.” Voices from the Field - 15 Dec 2015
 
MSF teams providing support to the Chadian Ministry of Health
A triple suicide attack that took place on the island of Koulfoua in the Lake Chad area in Chad on Saturday morning has reportedly killed 30 people and wounded up to 200. Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF) teams present in the area have immediately mobilised to provide support to the Chadian Ministry of Health.
Chad

I had never before seen these types of injuries”

Dr Silas Adamou Moussa is Deputy Head of Mission for MSF in Chad. He is part of the team who was deployed to Mani to assist wounded following the suicide attacks that took place on Koulfoua Island on the morning of 5 December. Voices from the Field - 8 Dec 2015
 
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Syria

Bombing & fighting threaten provision of medical care & humanitarian aid, MSF warns

n upsurge in fighting and bombing over the past week in northern Syria’s Azaz district, near the Turkish border, is jeopardising medical activities in the few hospitals and health posts that are still functioning, says international medical organisation Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF), warning that it may be forced to close its own hospital in the Aleppo province. Press Release - 7 Dec 2015
 
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Chad

Deadly attack on Koulfa Island

A triple suicide attack that took place on the island of Koulfa in the Lake Chad area in Chad on Saturday morning has reportedly killed 30 people and wounded up to 200. Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF) teams present in the area have immediately mobilised to provide support to the Chadian Ministry of Health. Project Update - 7 Dec 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.
Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF)

Independent medical humanitarian assistance

We provide medical assistance to people affected by conflict, epidemics, disasters, or exclusion from healthcare. Our teams are made up of tens of thousands of health professionals, logistic and administrative staff - most of them hired locally. Our actions are guided by medical ethics and the principles of independence and impartiality. We are a non-profit, self-governed, member-based organisation.

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