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Dr Dida, MSF Surgeon operating a gunshot wounded woman.

International Activity Report 2015

Annual Report - 7 Jul 2016
 
A baby with respiratory assistance in MSF women's hospital in Peshawar.
Pakistan

More than interesting it’s been quite eye-opening

"It is absolutely brilliant that we can offer healthcare, especially when you have patients who come from regions where they have poor access," says Dr Anokhi Ali Khan, MSF paediatrician at Peshawar women’s hospital in northeastern Pakistan. Voices from the Field - 6 Jul 2016
 
Raisa Manko, 80, lives in Taramchuk, eastern Ukraine. Her house was shelled in August 2014, and now she lives another house in the same village which was abandoned by its owners. It was also shelled, but remains relatively intact.
Raisa has hypertension and asthma, and has just been diagnosed with pneumonia. MSF’s mobile clinic team visits the village to provide assistance to her and others who remain stuck near the line of contact.  The elderly are particularly vulnerable, having not been able to escape at the height of the conflict. 
“I don’t live, I survive. The war: it started all unexpectedly. We could not understand what was going on. They started to shell very intensely, and the shells were falling everywhere. Some houses were half ruined, but mine was completely ruined. I don’t have anything left.
How can I live like this in my old age?  I have nothing. I don’t want to live like this, but I have no choice. I have nothing except three graves – my husband, my mother and my son.”
Ukraine

We are lost here and very scared

Project Update - 5 Jul 2016
 
An interior view of the MSF Trauma Centre, 14 October 2015, shows a missile hole in the wall and the burnt-out remians of the the building aftera sustained attack on the facility in Kunduz, northern Afghanistan..
Afghanistan

The attack on Kunduz trauma centre

First published in the International Activity Report 2015 Voices from the Field - 1 Jul 2016
 
Since French authorities demolished the southern half of the Jungle camp in March this year, living conditions in the northern half have become very cramped. People are fighting for space, with 1,000 new arrivals in the past month alone, local NGOs have counted, including 142 minors which makes a total of 700 minors in the Jungle now.
France

No respite from violence for refugees in Calais

Project Update - 1 Jul 2016
 
A Syrian refugee woman holds on to her headscarf against the wind while she and her daughter stand outside their tent at an informal tented settlement near the Syrian border on the outskirts of Mafraq, Jordan.
Syria

Voices from the Berm

Voices from the Field - 30 Jun 2016
 
On Sunday and Monday MSF teams ran mobile clinics around the UN base, treating 160 and 174 people respectively. People were much sicker than we would have expected, the impact of months of ongoing insecurity. Main morbidities are malaria (due to the rainy season and limited access to bed nets), malnutrition (it is the traditional hunger gap period, but due to the conflict people have not been able to cultivate), diarrhea and upper respiratory tract infections. We also treated gunshot wounds and women who had been raped. 
 
Yesterday we shipped in two plane loads of supplies including therapeutic food, rape kits and dressings. Today our teams have handed over our activities in the UN base so that we can move further south to find those people who have been pushed further away by the fighting. We will continue to respond to the situation as it evolves.
South Sudan

Heavy fighting in Wau causing new displacement crisis

Dr David Kahindi, Deputy Medical Coordinator for MSF, has been working in South Sudan for more than three years. He recently arrived in Wau where he has been overseeing MSF’s emergency response. Voices from the Field - 29 Jun 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.
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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