Over 200 psychiatric patients evacuated from overcrowded hospital in Kharkiv

MSF medically evacuated over 200 patients with neurological and psychiatric conditions from an overcrowded hospital in Kharkiv to facilities in Kyiv by our medical train over 36 hours, beginning on 23 September. Project Update - 29 Sep 2022

Arrival of MSF medical supplies at the Hervé Farm IDP site in Kwamouth

Democratic Republic of Congo

Thousands affected by inter-communal violence in Maï-Ndombe province

In Mai-Ndombe province, Democratic Republic of Congo, recent inter-communal violence has affected thousands. MSF has been in Kwamouth, providing much needed medical and mental healthcare to those affected, since 24 August. Project Update - 26 Sep 2022

“We left our home together with children. We had friends here who sheltered us. 14 people lived in their house,” says Yevhenia Koval, an IDP from the Kherson region.

Now Yevhenia and her husband live in an IDP center in Kryvyi Rih that shelters more than a hundred people fleeing the war.

“These are people who lived in the villages of the Kherson region. They were attached to their land and their animals. They had a house. They had some family ties. Due to the fact that these people had to move, they lost it all,” says an MSF psychologist Natalia Polovynko.

She visits people in this center together with a health promoter. Natalia conducts psychological consultations – individual and in groups.
“He was wounded and stayed in the basement for a month and a half. We had nothing – no medicines, nothing... Everything was already destroyed at the time. On April 3 we learned that my son died,” says Yevhenia from Kherson region, Ukraine.

She and her husband managed to get to the city of Kryvyi Rih. Now they live in an IDP centre. MSF team provides assistance there: our psychologists conduct individual and group sessions. We also distribute free medicines.

War in Ukraine

The enormous mental health needs for displaced people in Ukraine

The war in Ukraine has lasted more than six months, and has left behind a trail of destruction. Our teams are working to respond to the enormous mental health needs in the country that has left millions of people displaced and traumatised. Voices from the Field - 13 Sep 2022

MSF-supported construction of a new triage room at Dedougou health centre

Burkina Faso

Thousands displaced after escalating violence in Boucle du Mouhoun region

MSF has been supporting a health centre in Dédougou after some 6,700 people fled violence, providing basic healthcare, referrals to the regional hospital, and mental health counselling. Project Update - 26 Aug 2022

At an MSF organised mental health group session for women, the participants sing and dance, as a means of relieving stress, and finding some joy despite the crisis they have all endured, and the uncertainty of their futures.

South Sudan

Meeting mental health needs in the aftermath of violence

MSF ran an emergency intervention in Tambura, South Sudan from December 2021 until June 2022 to respond to the needs of 80,000 displaced people after conflict erupted in the area. While we provided essential care like vaccinations and maternal health, there was a clear need for mental healthcare activities. Project Update - 24 Aug 2022

Palestine

Caring for the severely injured after deadly escalation in Gaza

The recent escalation in Gaza on 5 August 2022 resulted in the deaths of 49 Gazans, including 17 children. MSF teams are supporting people who were severely injured. Project Update - 19 Aug 2022

Jean Louis is in his twenties but is already scarred by a conflict that has turned Delmas 4, once one of the main commercial and industrial areas of Haiti’s capital, Port-au-Prince, into a battleground for competing armed groups.

The violence that has been intensifying and spreading across larger parts of the capital keeps the population locked in neighbourhoods that the Ministry of Health staff are fearful to access because of the insecurity they face.

“Last night the gunfire went off again around 2:00 a.m., no one could sleep”, says Jean Louis. “This time a wave of tear gas was also unleashed. We could hardly breathe. There is an unstoppable war going on between two armed groups from Bel Air and Delmas 4. When the shooting begins, people start running to seek cover where they feel more secure”, he says pointing to his haven, a tiny space under the only bed in the small room. “It did not used to be like this. It used to be very peaceful around here, that was before the fighting erupted on 6 June 2021”, he recalls.

Haiti

Haitians fleeing deadly conflict are turned away by the US

Thousands of Haitians seeking asylum in the US are being expelled back to conflict-ridden Haiti, where armed groups have taken over large areas of the capital. Project Update - 12 Aug 2022

In Mumane, a community near the city of Montepuez, more than 500 newly displaced families received MSF’s relief items kits.

Since June, it is estimated that violence has driven over 80,000 (according to OCHA) people out of their homes in the northern Mozambican province of Cabo Delgado. People fleeing violence have been on the move and often settle near communities with little to no means of livelihood. MSF is providing emergency assistance to new arrivals by distributing kits with essential relief items. MSF logistics and supply teams work around the clock to coordinate with multiple actors, organize the kits and provide a timely and comprehensive response. To this date, more than 4,000 families that have been displaced from heavy-hit locations in the province, such as Ancuabe, have benefitted from the kits in 9 localities in the province, such as Montepuez, Metuge and Meluco.

Mozambique

Tens of thousands of people displaced by conflict in need of essential items in Cabo Delgado

In Cabo Delgado, Mozambique, more than 80,000 people have been displaced due to violence since June - MSF provides essential items for displaced people who have lost everything. Voices from the Field - 11 Aug 2022

Displaced people, including children, stand in the classroom of Rumangabo elementary school, which in recent weeks has been transformed into an IDP site that hosts more than 3,000 people, on July 15, 2022, in North Kivu province, eastern Democratic Republic of Congo. The front line between the Congolese army and the M23 armed group is just a few miles from the village.

Democratic Republic of Congo

Hundreds of thousands at risk without food, shelter or healthcare in North Kivu

As violence and conflict continue to flare between the M23 group and the army in DRC, hundreds of thousands of people have been displaced, without food, healthcare or proper shelter. Project Update - 3 Aug 2022

Haiti

Dozens of people hit by stray bullets as fierce violence flares up again in Port-au-Prince

As fighting intensifies in the capital of Haiti and our teams continue to treat people with gunshot wounds, we call on all parties of the conflict to ensure civilians are spared from the violence. Press Release - 29 Jul 2022

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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