MSF is providing general and mental healthcare in Colombia’s Norte de Santander and Nariño, where violence has led to mass displacements and confinements Project Update - 28 Oct 2020

Speaking Out videos: MSF and the Rohingya 1992 - 2014

Speaking Out videos: MSF and the Rohingya 1992 - 2014 - 28 Oct 2020

Mariam Maïga, holding her son and his vaccination card after his measles vaccination. Arnassaye, one of the outlying vaccination sites.

Mali

Prevention is better than cure – vaccinating against measles in Timbuktu

MSF and the Ministry of health recently vaccinated 50,000 children against measles in Timbuktu, Mali, where displacement and violence mean coverage is low. Project Update - 27 Oct 2020

Syria

Dozens of people treated following an airstrike in Idlib

Dozens of people have been treated at a hospital co-managed by MSF, following an airstrike in a relatively stable part of Idlib governorate, northwest Syria. Project Update - 26 Oct 2020

Omaima is 52 years old and suffers from neurological problems, asthma, hyper-tension and mental health issues.
She says:
"We have been in this camp for one year, it is a terrible camp; full of rats, dirt, there is not enough food and all of this causes mental health problems.
The health system in the camp has deteriorated and, because I am asthmatic, I don’t want to see the doctor here because I am afraid of being put in quarantine.
I prefer to be in my tent which is full of rats and snakes, but at least I am not going to be in direct contact with other sick people from different communities in the same container.”

Greece

Negligent and dangerous COVID-19 response in Vathy camp, Samos

On Greece's Samos island, the inadequate COVID-19 response in Vathy camp is dangerous and should be immediately addressed. Project Update - 26 Oct 2020

Cameroon

Doctors Without Borders responds to school shooting in southwest Cameroon

Following a school shooting in Kumba, Doctors Without Borders launched a mass casualty plan, responding with our ambulance service and surgical care in the Presbyterian General Hospital. Press Release - 24 Oct 2020

An MSF medical team was dispatched to conduct a triage of the survivors.

Following assessment by the doctor, two patients were designated as requiring of further examination in the ships hospital, onboard SeaWatch4.

Both are stable but remain under observation.

Mediterranean migration

Lives on the line as legal appeal lodged to free the Sea-Watch 4

Sea-Watch, the organisation which runs the Sea-Watch 4, the search and rescue vessel on which MSF provides medical care, has lodged an appeal against the ship's detainment. Press Release - 23 Oct 2020

South Sudan

Worsening flooding increases health risks

South Sudan's severe floods are leaving people without adequate food, water or shelter. Malaria cases are rising and other disease outbreaks are likely. Project Update - 22 Oct 2020

MSF in Agok, South Sudan.

South Sudan faces many challenges, including ongoing conflict, displacement, food shortages/malnutrition, lack of social services including health care, and insecurity. MSF hospitals have been under attack from different armed groups, putting the medical staff and patients at risk.

Azerbaijan

MSF response in Nagorno-Karabakh

MSF update on activities in Nagorno-Karabakh, Azerbaijan. Project Update - 22 Oct 2020

Muammar Al-Hiyali (45 years) works as head of drivers in MSF’s post-operative care hospital in East Mosul. Muammar manages a team of 15 drivers. Here, he is spending a morning with some of them before going about their daily tasks.

Iraq

Humanitarians behind the scenes in Iraq

Across all of MSF's projects worldwide, the vast majority - usually more than 90% - are people hired locally in the project's area. And despite our name meaning 'doctors without borders' in English, our medical teams rely on a solid team of humanitarians who don't have a medical background. Voices from the Field - 20 Oct 2020

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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MSF responds to a resurgence of violence in Norte de Santander and Nariño