Those forced to flee tell of torched villages, extortion and indiscriminate attacks. Voices from the Field - 8 Jan 2018

Tatiana Ivanovna, 65 years old, in a medical consultation with Doctor Tatiana Azarova. This MSF mobile clinic is located in the village of Pavlopil, about five kilometers from the contact line. Tatiana Ivana is receiving medical care and mental health support from MSF mobile teams.

Ukraine

Caring for villagers trapped near frontlines in Opytne

Without access to a regular doctor, the villagers in Opytne practice self-care, measure each other’s blood pressure, and self-medicate. Project Update - 5 Jan 2018

Bangladesh

Building a hospital for Rohingya in three weeks

Watch our latest video on our 50-bed hospital build in 3 weeks. Project Update - 4 Jan 2018

Mohammad Othman, a 10-year-old Rohingya refugee in Bangladesh, carries a heavy sack of food distributed by the Red Cross back to his family.

Rohingya refugee crisis

A living nightmare (part two)

Arriving at the Kutupalong makeshift refugee camp complex in Bangladesh, the first thing one is struck by is its sheer size. Home to close to 650,000 members of Myanmar’s Rohingya community, its population is comparable to Frankfurt or Memphis. Photo Story - 3 Jan 2018

Syria

Medical evacuations must be permitted with no strings attached

Statement - 28 Dec 2017

MSF Netherlands project at the Kutupalong Makeshift Camp. Kutupalong makeshift camp A violent crackdown on stateless Rohingya living in Bangladesh has led thousands of people to seek safety at Kutupalong makeshift camp. Driven from their homes in the Cox's Bazaar area by local authorities and vigilante groups, around 2,000 people arrived in January alone, swelling camp numbers to nearly 30,000. New arrivals describe how they have suffered threats, beatings and in some cases escaped being forcibly returned to Myanmar. For decades, thousands of Rohingya, an ethnic and religious minority from Myanmar, have sought refuge in Bangladesh. However, a mere 28,000 are recognised as prima facie refugees by the Government, and live in official camps under the supervision of UNHCR. In sharp contrast, more than 200,000 people struggle to survive unrecognised and largely unassisted, vulnerable to ill health and exploitation. MSF runs a basic health programme in Kutupalong, providing much needed medical care to stateless Rohingya in Kutupalong makeshift camp and the host community.

Bangladesh

Emergence of diphtheria worsens situation of Rohingya refugees

Cases of diphtheria are increasing among Rohingya refugees living in densely-populated camps in Bangladesh. Project Update - 24 Dec 2017

Waiting outside the Accident and Emergency room of the MSF clinic in Kutupalong, Cox’s Bazaar, Bangladesh.

Rohingya refugee crisis

Crisis update – December 2017

Cases of diphtheria are increasing among Rohingya refugees living in densely-populated camps in Bangladesh. Crisis Update - 23 Dec 2017

Syria

MSF reports show more assistance is needed to meet healthcare needs

Our data shows women and children have the most difficulty in accessing adequate healthcare. Humanitarian assistance must be increased. Report - 20 Dec 2017

While working on her farm on the outskirts of Baghdad, Faleeha stepped on a landmine which exploded and left her with factures in her hand and severe damage to her face. Her left leg was so gravely wounded that at a local hospital it had to be amputated below the knee. After the amputation, Faleeha was referred to the MSF Hospital in Amman for reconstructive surgery. Here the orthopaedic surgeons operated on nerves in her hands and elongated the tendons in order to mobilise the joints

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Healing war wounds in the Middle East. http://rsp.msf-me.org/

Madhor
“Russian, Syrian… I don’t know. There were so many aeroplanes dropping bombs in those days in 2016,” says Madhor. A farmer from rural Hama governorate, in Syria, Madhor was sitting under an olive tree with his seven children when a barrel bomb hit them, killing two of the children. He remembers the moment that the bomb dropped, but then he lost consciousness for three days. He awoke in a hospital in Hama to find he had lost an eye and his left leg was bloody and broken. “I just thought I would die,” says Madhor. “I also lost my teeth, and for three months I almost didn’t eat.”
Madhor can now walk with crutches, but it remains painful. After multiple operations at MSF’s hospital in Amman, the intensive physiotherapy has had positive results: Madhor can now enjoy days away from the hospital visiting his wife Layla and their five remaining children in Jordan’s Azraq refugee camp. He can also walk the couple of hundred metres to the hopsital’s nearest mosque, for a calm moment of prayer in his ongoing recovery.

Jordan

A decade of healing at MSF’s reconstructive surgery hospital

Surgeons at our Amman-based reconstructive surgery hospital operate on victims of conflicts in the Middle East whose wounds are inflicted by bomb blasts, bullets, shrapnel and burns. Research and innovation are an important part of the hospital’s programme. Project Update - 20 Dec 2017

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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Thousands displaced by fighting north of Paoua