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Brima Vandi, MSF nurse from Sierra Leone. He was part of the MSF team that worked on rehabilitating and supporting the Bor State hospital in June 2014. 
When violence started to spread in South Sudan in December 2013, Bor was one of the first towns to be hit. During December and January the town shifted hands several times between government and opposition forces, and 70,000 civilians from Bor took refuge in camps within South Sudan or in neighbouring countries. The State hospital was ransacked and all the staff and patients fled.  He says: "It’s their hospital, not ours.  I felt I was doing what I came here to do – to support, to let people know what to do and then train them in giving quality medical service."
South Sudan

Restoring a ransacked hospital

MSF nurse supervisor Brima Vandi's recounts the restoration of Bor's abandoned hospital Voices from the Field - 8 Apr 2015
 
Since the clashes erupted in Aden on the 19th of March between forces loyal to president Hadi and special security forces - a rebel unit loyal to the former president Saleh - the conflict intensified in Aden and other areas in the South of Yemen, including Ad-Dhale', Lawdar and Lahj. MSF emergency surgical unit received more than 600 patients from March 19 until April 5, but it is more and more difficult for wounded to reach the hospital as roads are often blocked and ambulances stopped, attacked and highjacked.

Depuis que les combats ont éclaté le jeudi 19 mars à Aden entre les forces fidèles au président Hadi et les forces spéciales de sécurité,une unité rebelle fidèle à l'ancien président Saleh, le conflit s'est intensifié à Aden ainsi que dans d'autres zones du sud du Yémen, y compris à Ad-Dhale', Lawdar et Lahj. L'unité chirurgicale d'urgence de MSF d'Aden a reçu plus de 600 patients entre le 19 mars et le 5 avril, mais les blessés ont de plus de plus de difficultés à atteindre l'hôpital, les routes étant souvent bloquées et les ambulances attaquées, confisquées ou braquées.
Yemen

‘We are on lockdown inside the hospital’

Published in the Guardian: Valerie Pierre is working with Médecins Sans Frontières in the city of Aden, which has seen heavy fighting and air strikes in recent weeks In the Media - 7 Apr 2015
 
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Central African Republic

In the aftermath, everything has changed

Tatiana four years old, arrived at the hospital suffering from acute malaria, marasmus (a severe form of malnutrition) and hypothermia. Voices from the Field - 7 Apr 2015
 
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Kenya

“A sadness has descended” in Garissa

What an MSF doctor witnessed when his team responded to the attack on Garissa University Voices from the Field - 4 Apr 2015
 
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Kenya

MSF medical team helps treat more than 70 wounded in Garissa University attack

Treating survivors for gunshot and blast wounds, and cut injuries from shattered glass during their escape. Also providing care at Garissa airport, where hundreds of evacuated students spent the night. Press Release - 3 Apr 2015
 
A night view of the CTC (Cholera Treatment Center) set up by MSF (Médecins Sans Frontières) and co-managed with the Mozambican ministry of Health in Tete district which is the most affected area in the country. Due to the critical conditions of several patients and high standards of hygiene required to contain the spread of cholera outbreak, the CTC needs a constant work, including night turns.
Mozambique

Cholera - the water thief

For the people in Tete, life or death depended on how quickly they could get to the treatment centre once the symptoms started. This is their story. Voices from the Field - 2 Apr 2015
 
Ebola has badly impacted public health services in Liberia.  Many medical structures, unable to handle infected patients, have closed at some point during the outbreak after dozens of health personal died fighting it. Today most facilities are still providing reduced services compared to before the outbreak. As the result, the population struggle accessing medical care for non-Ebola related diseases. MSF operations in Liberia are therefore shifting towards supporting the public health system. MSF has opened a paediatric hospital in Monrovia on March 23 and assists JDJ Memorial Hospital as well as 23 clinics in safely resuming activities.
Liberia

Rebooting public health services

As the number of Ebola patients declines, MSF is assisting the local health system to safely restore medical services. Voices from the Field - 2 Apr 2015
 
Casey O’Connor, Project Coordinator in Lankien March 2015
South Sudan

Stranded in the surgical ward

MSF has been trying to adapt to a new reality in South Sudan. It has shifted from addressing the huge medical needs of a people with generally no access to healthcare, to addressing the huge medical needs of people trapped in an armed conflict. Voices from the Field - 1 Apr 2015
 
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Nigeria

An estimated 6,000 new IDPs are living in very precarious situation in Maiduguri

New camp currently has no latrines, no water on site and insufficient shelter. Project Update - 31 Mar 2015
 
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Yemen

Badly needed medical supplies and health personnel unable to reach conflict affected areas of Yemen

Closure of all international airports in Sana’a, Aden and Hodeida, and heavy restrictions on the seaports, are hampering the delivery of humanitarian assistance. Press Release - 31 Mar 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)

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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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