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The town of Guiuan, in the east of Samar island, an area hit first and hard by the typhoon. The damage there is extensive and the needs huge. Almost all the buildings in the town were destroyed. The local medical facilities are also severely damaged and not functional. MSF's emergency team has started its support to a health centre and seeing the first patients. Most patients came for wounds that have become infected. They are launching what will be an integrated provision of mobile clinics, reaching out to the more isolated parts of the coast and islands, and outpatient service in the town of Guiuan itself. That clinic will have the ability to keep more seriously ill patients overnight. MSF will also be providing water and sanitation services as soon as possible, while assisting with shelter. Other members of the team will also assess smaller nearby islands by helicopter.
Philippines

Typhoon Haiyan: MSF starts treating patients

MSF team set up medical services and treated patients. Twenty five minor surgeries performed. Project Update - 15 Nov 2013
 
Medical doctor Johan Von Schreeb and nurse Lisa Rydell, both from Sweden, consulting a patient at the clinic of Guiuan, in the east of Samar island, an area hit first and hard by the typhoon. The damage there is extensive and the needs huge. Almost all the buildings in the town were destroyed. The local medical facilities are also severely damaged and not functional. MSF's emergency team has started its support to a health centre and seeing the first patients. Most patients came for wounds that have become infected.
Philippines

Typhoon Haiyan: Interview with Dr Johan von Schreeb, MSF surgeon in Guiuan

MSF teams set up medical services and treated patients. Twenty five minor surgeries performed. Voices from the Field - 15 Nov 2013
 
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Philippines

Typhoon Haiyan: Video interview with Dr Natasha Reyes

Video interview with Dr Natasha Reyes, MSF emergency coordinator, on MSF response to Typhoon Haiyan. Project Update - 15 Nov 2013
 
Las familias de presos requieren, por lo general, atención psicológica. Mujeres, madres o hijos acusan todos  la ausencia del familiar preso. En el caso de Adel,  que se puso en huelga de hambre, agravó la condición de la familia. 
Prisoners’ families usually need psychological attention. Women, mothers, fathers, children, they are all affected by the absence of the prisoner. Adel’s case, who went into hunger strike, worsened the condition of his family.
Palestine

Occupied Minds - Children and live ammunition

Part III of Occupied Minds, a series of stories about MSF patients affected by the Israeli-Palestinian conflict. Voices from the Field - 14 Nov 2013
 
Los equipos de Salud Mental de MSF en Hebrón y Jerusalén Este han detectado un aumento de menores con necesidades de atención psicológica. Hussein y Ziad conservan los brazaletes que les dieron como regalo los prisioneros cuando pasaron por la cárcel. Tienen 15 y 14 años. 
The MSF teams in Hebron and East Jerusalem have detected an increase of minors in need of psychological attention. Hussein and Ziad keep the bracelets that the inmates made for them while they were in prison. They are 15 and 14 years old.
Palestine

Occupied Minds - Children and home detention

Occupied Minds is a series of stories about Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF) patients affected by the Israeli-Palestinian conflict, people receiving assistance from MSF mental health teams in Hebron and in East Jerusalem. Voices from the Field - 14 Nov 2013
 
Ahed Tamini is a 14-year-old Palestinian girl who lives in the village of Nabi Saleh, in the occupied Palestinian territories. She is in ninth grade. This is the sweet blond, blue-eyed girl who two years ago stood up to Israeli soldiers, shaking her fist at one of them after she learned they had arrested her brother. She is a passionate lover of football and an unconditional fan of Neymar Jr?—?she and her cousin Jana baked him a strawberry cake for his birthday.
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Occupied Minds

Occupied Minds is a series of stories about Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF) patients affected by the Israeli-Palestinian conflict, people receiving assistance from MSF mental health teams in Hebron, East Jerusalem and Gaza. The stories are collected by the MSF teams. Occupied Minds seeks to reflect the reality of daily life under occupation for MSF patients. www.msf-me.org
 
Las incursiones de soldados israelíes en casas palestinas se hacen por lo general por la noche de forma violenta. Youssef fue detenido tras una incursión en la casa de su padre. La familia quedó traumatizada. 
Incursions by Israeli soldiers are often carried out at night in a very violent way. Youssef was detained after an incursion in his father’s house. The family was left traumatized.
Palestine

Occupied Minds - Night incursions in Hebron

Project Update - 14 Nov 2013
 
Guiuan is municipality of 45,000 people. 87 people dead but the devastation is massive. 99% of Guiuan is flattened. Trees, houses, infrastructures, livelihood means such as rice fields, fishing boats were destroyed. Marie Jeanne Bertol, an orthopaedic surgeon, one of the three MSF staff who assessed the situation and needs in Guiuan, said “from the medical stand point, it doesn’t mean that if you have small number of lives lost the damage is less. As a doctor I don’t want the number of deaths to increase by neglecting the needs of the injured people, open wounds slowly becoming infected, upper respiratory tract infection cases especially in children. Right now there are no reported cases of diarrhea so the earlier we could get our team in the community, the higher chance we prevent more lives being wasted.”
Philippines

Typhoon Haiyan: MSF reaches centre of storm path

Teams reach northern Cebu island, eastern Samar island, Panay Island, and western Leyte province Project Update - 13 Nov 2013
 
Survivors gathered at the airport, hoping for an evacuation. — at tacloban City, Leyte.
Philippines

Typhoon Haiyan: MSF medical activities start taking shape

137 staff now in Philippines, 232 tonnes of supplies arrived Project Update - 13 Nov 2013
 
Medical and logistical supplies are being loaded at Ostend airport, from where two cargo planes will take off tomorrow morning to support the relief effort in the Philippines. MSF is sending 329 tonnes of medical and relief items which will arrive in Cebu within the next few days in four cargo planes, which are leaving today and tomorrow – 2 from Dubai and 2 from Ostende. The humanitarian cargo includes medical kits for treating wounded, material for medical consultations, tetanus vaccines, water and sanitation equipment, and relief items such as tents and hygiene kits. An additional cargo is being prepared due to leave later this week from Bordeaux with an inflatable hospital and medical material.
Philippines

Typhoon Haiyan: MSF working to reach worst affected areas

“People have lost everything” Project Update - 12 Nov 2013
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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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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