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"I consider myself luckier than a lot of other wounded Syrians who couldn't reach Jordan for treatment"

Voices from the Field - 7 Dec 2016

In late March 2014, MSF inaugurated a post-operative care unit in Zaatari refugee camp, northeast of Amman. The space was opened as a step-down overflow facility for war-wounded Syrians referred from MSF’s Ramtha surgical project and other Jordanian hospitals to receive long-term rehabilitative and convalescent care. Jordan’s stringent decision to seal its borders with Syria completely on 21 June denied war-wounded Syrians access to Jordan. Despite the intensification of fighting between warring parties in southern Syria, Jordanian borders remain tightly sealed, leaving the severely-wounded Syrians and lifesaving cases with very slim chances to survive. Today, MSF’s facility in Zaatari stands nearly empty despite the growing medical needs at the other side of the Jordanian borders. To this end, MSF has regrettably decided to end all operations in its Zaatari facility while the number of war-wounded mounts behind the closed borders.

Jordan

Border closure forces MSF's clinic for war-wounded Syrians in Zaatari refugee camp to shut

Press Release - 7 Dec 2016

Most people in Lulingu depend on food they grow themselves. After being forced from their homes, they can no longer reach their fields or harvest their crops.

Democratic Republic of Congo

The pendulum of violence

Project Update - 7 Dec 2016

Damaged hospital car

The last two functional ambulances in Al-Marj neighbourhood (in the East Ghouta besieged area near Damascus) were destroyed beyond repair in an aerial bomb attack on Monday 05 December 2016. They were parked in the hospital’s warehouse/garage, very near to the makeshift hospital’s location. Two hospital cars, used to transporting supplies and medical personnel, were also destroyed in the blast. The lack of ambulances will have an impact on the ability to quickly treat wounded when there is bombing or shelling in the area, but above all it will affect the capacity to refer the most sick patients to larger secondary referral hospitals. The makeshift hospital in Al-Marj is not equipped for complex or long-term in-patient hospital care, and this could have a big impact on the ability to refer patients for appropriate secondary care.

Syria

How can hope survive in these circumstances? A Syrian doctor’s account

Voices from the Field - 7 Dec 2016

Medecins Sans Frontieres (MSF) doctors Frandy Samson and Dr. Stijn Bex treat three year old Dieula. She was brought to the Cholera Treatment Centre in Port-à-Piment. by her aunt Ena.

Haiti

Health status two months after Hurricane Matthew, in the hardest-hit provinces

Crisis Update - 6 Dec 2016

Nancy, certified nurse, is checking on Jana, 2 hours old baby delivered in the Mother & hild care centre in Majdal Anjar.

Lebanon

"I still remember the first child born at our centre - her name was Ghazal"

Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF) teams at the mother and child care center in Majdal Anjar, Lebanon work hard to ensure healthy pregnancy and safe delivery for Syrian refugees. Voices from the Field - 2 Dec 2016

Syria

I don’t know how, but I’ll try to leave the house

On his way to meet friends for coffee, 27-year-old computer repairman Abu Ahmed was injured by a cluster bomb. Four weeks later, his bone fracture has failed to heal. His only hope is specialist orthopaedic surgery in Turkey – but he is trapped in east Aleppo. Bedridden, he now watches in despair as his neighbourhood falls into rubbles after the new wave of airstrikes. Voices from the Field - 2 Dec 2016

Bourbon Argos and Aquarius crew and Medecins Sans Frontieres (MSF) staff rescue 700 people aboard an overcrowded wooden boat in the Central Mediterranean Sea.

Mediterranean migration

10 things you need to know about the Mediterranean crisis

From the beginning of operations in April until 29 November 2016, MSF directly rescued 19,708 people from overcrowded boats and assisted a further 7,117 people with safe transfer to Italy and medical care. Project Update - 2 Dec 2016

Rwanda

Interview with the authors of "Humanitarian Aid, Genocide and Mass Killings"

"We decided to write a book, bringing together our experiences as a humanitarian doctor and a sociologist" Interview - 1 Dec 2016

Ebola and haemorrhagic fevers

Engaging with National Authorities: Médecins Sans Frontières’s experience in Guinea during the Ebola epidemic

UREPH is pleased to announce the publication of the article “Engaging with National Authorities: Médecins Sans Frontières’s experience in Guinea during the Ebola epidemic” by Marc Poncin in the journal Humanitarian Alternatives. Journal article - 30 Nov 2016

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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