Project Update - 19 Mar 2013

Thousands of civilians flee the bombing of Srebrenica, 6000 people were reported missing, Bosnia 1995

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We raise awareness and create debate about crises through our policy of 'témoignage’ (bearing witness). In MSF, this means a willingness to speak on behalf of the people we seek to help: to bring abuses and intolerable situations to public attention. Through case studies, we openly examine and analyse our actions and decision-making processes during humanitarian emergencies that have led us to speak out. msf.org/speakingout

Between August 19 and September 10 2010, Police incursions took place in many different cities in Morocco (Oujda, Al-Hoceima, Nador, Tanger, Rabat, Casablanca, Fez). In many of these raids police forces have used bulldozers and ,in Oujda even helicopters, destroying migrantsÕ tents and houses.
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It is estimated that during these raids between 600-700 migrants were arrested and taken to the border between Morocco and Algeria. There, migrants were left alone to fend for themselves, without food or water. Many of them were women with children, pregnant women and migrants with injuries, directly or indirectly related to police raids, and medical problems.
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During these last weeks, MSF teams have seen an alarming increase in patients with medical problems related to incidents of violence. Out of the 186 patients that have received medical care from MSF, 103 had lesions and injuries directly or indirectly linked to the violence during the arrests.

Refugees, IDPs and people on the move

Violence, Vulnerability and Migration: Trapped at the Gates of Europe

A report on the situation of sub-Saharan migrants in an irregular situation in Morocco. Report - 13 Mar 2013

Nearly 2,000 People Living With HIV along with MSF & other civil society organisations rallied in the streets of New Delhi at the start of the EU-India summit. They warned that harmful provisions in a trade deal being negotiated between the EU and India could severely hinder access to affordable medicine for people in developing countries.

India

Under pressure from Europe to sign off on trade deal that will harm access to medicines

DNP+, MSF urge India to reject EU demands before April deadline, protest at European Commission in Delhi Project Update - 13 Mar 2013

Mussa acaba de participar en su segundo intento de saltar la valla de Melilla.
Dice que lo seguirá intentando, aunque tratará de evitar pasar por mar. Dos de sus
compañeros han muerto ahogados.

Mussa has just participated in its second attempt to jump the fence into Melilla.
He says he is going to keep on trying, although he’ll stay away from the sea. Two of its
colleagues drowned in an attempt to cross the Strait of Gibraltar.

Mussa vient d’essayer de passer le grillage de Melilla. C’est sa seconde tentative. Il
dit qu’il continuera à essayer mais qu’il essayera d’éviter de passer par la mer. Deux de
ses compagnons se sont noyés.

Morocco

Migrants face persistent violence

A new report by MSF outlines the impact of precarious living conditions and widespread criminal and institutional violence on the health of undocumented sub-Saharan migrants trapped in Morocco on their way to Europe. According to the report, Morocco’s transformation, as a result of increasingly stringent border controls, from a country of transit to a forced destination for migrants heightens their vulnerability. Press Release - 13 Mar 2013

Mali

Emergency medical needs continue

A truck loaded with Malian refugees and their meagre belongings sits parked in the heat on the edge of the Mbera refugee camp in Mauritania. Project Update - 12 Mar 2013

Haiti

Deplorable conditions for cholera patients

Project Update - 12 Mar 2013

Tajikistan

MSF treats youngest ever MDR-TB patient

Project Update - 12 Mar 2013

In 2011 MSF had scaled up its activities in Mogadiscio to respond to the needs of IDPs and general population.
MSF currently runs activities in several neighbourhoods of the city, including Howl Wadaag, Wadajiir and Jaseera, offering primary and secondary healthcare, including surgery and gyneco-obs care, to IDPs and resident population.
MSF also supports Daynile general hospital, in the outskirts of the capital.
Between January and June 2012, MSF has provided free healthcare to some 825 000 people.

Somalia

MSF closes its clinic in Xadaar after security incident

Humanitarian organisation is unable to continue its work as minimum safety conditions for patients and staff are not guaranteed Press Release - 11 Mar 2013

A 6 year old kid surrounded by MSF surgeons in the OT. He suffered from burns in his back. The operation was done in Al-Salam Hospital where MSF manages maternity, pediatric, surgical and emergency departments and provides medications and treatment for free

Yemen

MSF continues its medical activities in Aden emergency hospital

Press Release - 9 Mar 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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