Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF) has started providing chelation treatment to children with thalassemia in Tal Abyad national hospital, northeast Syria. After seven years of war, patients with this chronic disease have not received the regular treatment or blood transfusions they need. Project Update - 16 May 2018

$L’équipe médicale MSF réfère un patient depuis Bani Walid vers une structure de soin secondaire. Il souffre d’une fracture ouverte et infectée du tibia. La très grande majorité des patients pris en charge à Bani Walid ont réchappé de prisons clandestines présentes dans la région. Ils ont été kidnappés, torturés, et retenus captifs par des réseaux criminels qui leur font vivre un calvaire pour obtenir d’eux une rançon. Ces rescapés sont profondément affaiblis, avec des plaies qui se sont infectées, et de multiples traumatismes. MSF medics refer a patient from Bani Walid to a secondary health facility. The patient suffers from open and infected fracture of the shin. The vast majority of patients taken care of in Bani Walid manage to survive and escape secret prisons in the region. They were kidnapped, tortured, and held captive by criminal networks which make them live an ordeal to obtain ransom from them and their relatives. These survivors are profoundly weakened, with infected wounds and multiple traumas.$

Libya

The dangers refugees face fleeing

Trafficking, clandestine prisons and intercepted boat journeys – the dangers refugees face fleeing
Interview - 14 May 2018

Gaza, 14 mai 2018, Manifestation contre l'ouverture de l'ambassade à Jérusalem à gaza, dans la zone de Malaka. 52 palestiniens ont été tués et environ 2410 blessés sont à déplorer.

Gaza, in May 14th, 2018, Demonstration against the opening of the embassy in Jerusalem in Gaza, in the zone of Malaka. 52 Palestinians were killed and approximately 2410 wounded persons are to regret.

Palestine

Violence on demonstrators in Gaza is 'unacceptable and inhumane'

MSF statement on violence on protestors in Gaza strip. Statement - 14 May 2018

Syria

Newly displaced Syrians face multiple challenges in Idlib and northern Hama

Over the past two months, huge numbers of Syrians have been displaced from formerly besieged areas to northwest Syria, with more than 60,000 of them arriving in the governorate of Idlib and in northern Hama. Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF) is providing assistance throughout the area, and has strengthened the medical response in Qalaat al-Madiq in northern Hama, a location known as ‘zero point’ where new arrivals descend from buses. Project Update - 14 May 2018

A patient injured by gunshot during the March of Return is being operated by MSF teams in PFBH

Palestine

“In half of the injured we received… the bone has literally been turned into dust.”

Thierry Saucier is an orthopedic surgeon for MSF in Gaza. He explains the complexity of caring for the hundreds of people injured during the March of Return protests in recent weeks. Very serious injuries pose significant challenges for the surgeons, and will require months or even years of care. Voices from the Field - 10 May 2018

Feda' Abu Rashed

Worked with MSF: 3 years
Worked as nurse: 11 years

 What is the most satisfying aspect of your job?
“The most satisfying aspect of my work is the joy that comes from delivering good news to patients or their families. The joy that overfills you when you hand over a newborn baby to their family and they hold them for the first time. When you hear words of gratitude for a job well-done. It is a job that is rewarding in every way.”

 What motivates you to come to work every day, and to Irbid NCDs project?
“I get my motivation from learning new things at work, and from seeing the result of my effort translate into a healthy record for my patient. I am also motivated by helping refugees and seeing the smile on their faces when they are happy about their medical examination results. I am motivated to come to work to give some of this motivation to people who are suffering in silence. I am blessed and thankful to be a nurse and a member of the MSF team.”

 Do you act as a nurse in your home just like in work?
“It is amazing how people act when they know you have a medical background. My family thinks of me as the doctor of the family, they come to me for advices all the time. I even receive phone calls from people asking me medical questions “my son has this condition, what can I do?” “What is this medication for?” “Can I use this medication instead of that one?” “Can you give me this injection” “the doctor told me to use this medicine, do you think this is a good one?”

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Alaa al-Share’

Worked with MSF: since 2014
Worked as nurse: 13 years

 Why did you choose nursing?
Nursing is not just a day-to-day job. Being a nurse means being a teacher, an advocate, a care-giver, critical thinker and innovator. It means treating patients and colleagues with dignity.

 What does it mean to be a nurse?
“Being a nurse means sleepless nights, vital signs, and long hours by the bed side. It means working hard to provide high quality care to all patients and treating them with dignity. Nurses are the heart and soul of the healthcare system.”

 What motivates you to come to work every day, and to Irbid NCDs project?
“What motivates me to come to work every day is the ability to help people, and contribute to any improvement in their health condition. Working with MSF in the non-communicable diseases project gave me the chance to help refugees, learn about their suffering and see their smiles when their examination results are satisfactory. It is a reason enough to wake up every morning to hurry to work. Every single detail about a patient story can make a difference in a nurse’s life.”

 Do you act as a nurse in your home just like in work?
I am also a nurse at home. I always try to promote a healthy lifestyle for my family. I cannot disconnect from this reality, I act as a nurse wherever I am, and I am proud to be one.”

International Nurses' Day

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

Group photo ICCM team: (front) Christophe, Awa, Rigini, (Back) Chol, Kat, Charles, Martine

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Nurse Regina Abuk Thor examines two days old Amel Akoi Garang. The mother Catherina Peter Eduat holdes the baby in her arms.
MSF runs the maternity unit in Aweil State Hospital in Northern Bahr el Ghazal, South Sudan.

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Hussein, a 30-year-old cafeteria worker, suffered shrapnel wounds to his head, hand and back.
“I came to collect my transportation allowance from work. On my way, the airstrike hit and I got injured. I do not know what happened to the rest of my colleagues,” he said.

Yemen

MSF-supported hospitals treat mass casualties caused by airstrikes in Sana'a

A series of airstrikes on Monday morning by the Saudi and Emirati-led coalition struck near a busy street in the heart of Sana'a, Yemen. The airstrikes targeted the Yemeni presidential office, which is located near a hotel, pharmacies, a bank and shops, and resulted in a mass casualty influx of at least 72 injured and 6 dead at two hospitals supported by Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF). Press Release - 8 May 2018

Monica, infected with both HIV and multi-drug-resistant tuberculosis, or MDR-TB, is taking her drugs. She receives treatment through Blue House, a clinic on the edge of Mathare, one of the Kenyan capital Nairobi’s more violent slums, where MSF treats people with TB and HIV.
MSF began treating MDR-TB in Kenya in May of 2006 and remains the only provider of MDR treatment in the country today.

Access to medicines

Access Campaign Year in Review 2017

Seven ways the MSF Access Campaign increased access to lifesaving treatment in 2017. msfaccess.org - 7 May 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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Treating patients with chronic conditions in a war context