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Nepal

“Some villages are 80-100 percent destroyed. It was beyond my expectations.”

Anne Kluijtmans, an MSF nurse from Holland, was on holiday in Nepal when the earthquake struck on Saturday 25 April. She quickly joined the MSF teams who had arrived in the country to respond. Project Update - 5 May 2015
 
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Yemen

ICRC and MSF alarmed by attacks on country’s lifelines

The disruption of key logistic infrastructure, including airports, sea ports, bridges and roads, is creating a catastrophic humanitarian situation. Press Release - 4 May 2015
 
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Syria

Main hospital in Aleppo stops activities after being targeted

Al Sakhour hospital provided life-saving operations to around 400,000 people Press Release - 4 May 2015
 
MSF and MOAS rescue team to assist people in distress, 369 person have been found on a 12 meters wooden boat in the Mediterranean sea.

Will Turner (Emergency Coordinator) and MOAS rescue team on board of the RHIB. 

As part of the rescue operation, the team will provide people first with life jackets to prevent drowning and then operate transfer  onto the MY Phoenix. 

During transfer, the Rhib can take between 10 to 20 people on board. The team have to do many rides before taking everybody safe on board of the MY Phoenix.
Mediterranean migration

MSF and MOAS rescue 369 people on first outing

This weekend more than 6,000 people were rescued from the Mediterranean Sea while making the treacherous crossing from Libya to Europe - 369 of those were rescued by the MY Phoenix, a search and rescue vessel run in partnership by MSF and MOAS. Press Release - 4 May 2015
 
A 3 person MSF team began running mobile clinics by helicopter to remote villages in the mountains to the north of Kathmandu. Many villages have been completely or partially destroyed, and people are living under makeshift shelters. The earthquake and subsequent avalanches have cut off access to many villages so people are stuck with no way out.
Nepal

MSF doctor describes the challenge of getting aid to hardest hit areas

Interview with one of the first MSF doctors to be deployed to Nepal following last week's earthquake. Voices from the Field - 1 May 2015
 
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Yemen

Crisis update – 27 April

Over 1,266 war wounded have been treated. Assistance needs to be scaled up dramatically. Crisis Update - 30 Apr 2015
 
Aissatou was dischargd by the Prince of Wales school with her 14 years old daughter. Her husband and 4 other children died because of Ebola. Today she is leaving in the house of her mother.

Promoting health at the heart of the communities

Helping high risk communities beat Ebola can be high risk work Voices from the Field - 29 Apr 2015
 
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South Sudan

Nomads of war: A headmaster and his family living under a tree

Since the beginning of April , Simon Akoch, his wife and their six children have been sleeping under a tree in Noon, 25 minutes away from the Nile river by foot. Voices from the Field - 29 Apr 2015
 
MSF teams checking in 800 kg of medical material at the Brussels airport on their way to Nepal in response to the 25th of April 2015 earthquake.
Nepal

MSF teams have arrived and are assessing needs

One 17-member team in Kathmandu has carried out an initial assessment of the damage by helicopter. Crisis Update - 27 Apr 2015
 
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Nepal

MSF sending teams and supplies to Nepal

MSF sent teams of medical and non-medical staff to Nepal to assist those affected by the earthquake. The teams left yesterday from Brussels (Belgium) and Bihar state in India, Project Update - 27 Apr 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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