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A Syrian refugee child sits next to his grandmother while peeling eggplant for dinner, outside their tent at an informal tented settlement near the Syrian border on the outskirts of Mafraq, Jordan. The number of Syrian refugees stranded in a remote desert area known as "the berm," on the Jordanian border has tripled to 12,000 since last month, the U.N. refugee agency said Tuesday, Dec. 8, 2015.

Jordan

Winter will bring even more desperate living conditions for over 75,000 Syrians stranded at the 'Berm'

Project Update - 22 Nov 2016

The newly renovated Intensive Care unit in Sulaymaniyah Emergency Hospital was opened the 19 November after a complete reconstruction done by MSF. Sulaymaniyah Emergency Hospit is the only trauma facility in Sulaymaniyah Governorate treating all people with acute medical and surgical illness. Over the last two years, there has been a significant rise in the hospital’s catchment population (currently over 2.5 million people) due to the influx of internally displaced persons from neighbouring conflict zones. MSF has been working in Sulaymaniyah Emergency Hospital since January 2016, with the aim to reduce patient mortality rate by improving quality of care in both the Intensive Care Unit (ICU) and the Emergency Department (ER). This is done through improved quality of patient care and structural renovation of the ER & ICU medical facilities.

Iraq

Newly renovated intensive care unit opens at Sulaymaniyah emergency hospital

Project Update - 21 Nov 2016

The field surgery hospital has 8 emergency beds, 4 for severely wounded and 4 for moderately wounded, as well as an operating room and a bed for high dependency patients who need intensive care. It also has 9 post-op beds.

Iraq

As fighting intensifies, MSF bolsters response around Mosul

Project Update - 21 Nov 2016

Dr Abu Wasim, a plastic surgeon, stands next to a damaged ward on the upper floors of a hospital in east Aleppo after it was hit by an airstrike in mid-October 2016. He is one of the 7 surgeons left in East Aleppo.

Syria

Multiple direct and indirect hits on hospitals in east Aleppo in the last 48 hours

The only specialised paediatric hospital in besieged east Aleppo has come under attack for the second time since airstrikes resumed on 15 November, destroying three floors and leaving it out of service. Three other hospitals have also taken direct hits, resulting in casualties among staff and patients and leaving two key surgical hospitals and the largest general hospital out of service. Project Update - 19 Nov 2016

More than 300 people arrive each day in Nduta camp, originally designed for 50,000 people but now hosting over 65,000. New arrivals come by bus, first crossing the border point, then to transit camps and and then staying a few nights in the camp reception centre on arrival to Nduta. While they are being registered by UNHCR and before a family shelter is allocated to them, they live in overcrowded communal tents, facing poor hygiene and a high risk of malaria transmission.
New arrivals have to queue for hours in the reception centre to receive their daily meals. Some of these people have already been allocated a shelter, but have not received their refugee card and dry food rations. They have to come back every day to the reception centre to get a warm meal.
MSF is present at the reception centre to screen all new arrivals. “A lot of them arrive exhausted and in bad health condition. We do their medical check-up and send those in need to MSF clinics or refer them to the hospital. They also get vaccinated and pregnant women are scheduled for antenatal consultations.”
Medical teams have seen a big increase in the number of consultations, both at the reception centres and in MSF’s four health posts and hospital. The number of deliveries has risen as well. “When I arrived a few weeks ago, there were around five deliveries per day. Now we have around 12,” says Sally Parker, midwife.

Tanzania

"Tanzania - Aid is needed before situation deteriorates"

A critical situation is unfolding for hundreds of thousands of refugees in Tanzania, with camps now at full capacity. This slideshow illustrates the situation of Nduta refugee camp, overstretched by the influx of new arrivals - around 300 per day. Photo Story - 18 Nov 2016

In an unfinished concrete skeleton of a building eight families live in tents of plastic sheeting. They have lived there for one year and eight months, since fighting began in Taiz. They cook over a fire of cardboard and plastic, or eating leftovers they get from nearby restaurants. The women walk over to a factory a bit away to get water from there. Only one of the adults is working, washing cars. The MSF outreach team is checking children for malnutrition and other diseases and refers them to the MSF Mother and Child hospital if necessary. Apart from regular visits from the MSF team, the only assistance they have gotten was a distribution of soap six months ago.

Yemen

76 wounded and at least 21 dead in Taiz on the first day of the newly announced ceasefire

Project Update - 18 Nov 2016

MSF set up a circuit to vaccinate children under 5 years old, they also receive an anti-parasite and vitamin A and parents receive relief items such as soap and mosquito nets. In one day nearly 4,000 children were vaccinated.

Nigeria

Crisis Info on Borno emergency - November 2016

Crisis Update - 18 Nov 2016

Ndegue Michel (left) has been trained by MSF to treat malaria cases in the community so people don?t have to travel to the hospital. Here, a two-year-old girl is tested in the Rosin neighborhood on the outskirts of Carnot.

Central African Republic

Don't turn off the life support

Project Update - 17 Nov 2016

People walk down a street in Bustan Al Kasr neighbourhood after it was hit by airstrikes in mid-October 2016.

Syria

Hospital bombings in east Aleppo force staff to move children and premature babies to basement for shelter

Project Update - 17 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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