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On average, about 50 patients visit the clinic seeking medical attention.
Conflict in Sudan

MSF forced to suspend essential support in Wad Madani due to obstructions and harassment

After repeated security incidents and harassment, MSF has been forced to suspend work and withdraw staff from Madani Teaching Hospital in the capital of Al Jazirah state, Sudan.  Press Release - 9 May 2024
 
MSF’s Al-Mawasi temporary primary healthcare centre in Rafah opened in January 2024
Gaza-Israel war

Thousands forced to flee as Israeli military offensive intensifies and aid is blocked in Rafah

As the Rafah offensive intensifies, MSF calls for an immediate ceasefire and the reopening of the Rafah border crossing to allow lifesaving assistance to flow into Gaza. Press Release - 8 May 2024
 
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Port-au-Prince, Haiti, Monday, June 21, 2022.
   After being treated and stabilized by the MSF team in Turgeau, these patients, victims of a road accident, were discharged from the hospital and returned home.
  MSF/Johnson Sabin
Haiti

People cut off from vital healthcare as intense violence grips Port-au-Prince

Violence in Port-au-Prince, Haiti, has escalated dramatically, with armed groups expanding to new areas, leaving people too afraid to seek vital healthcare. Project Update - 3 May 2024
 
A photo of the partially functioning fifth bridge, once known as the city’s biggest bridge, near the remnants of the historic Qera Serai Castle (The Black Palace). Due to the ongoing rehabilitations of this bridge, crossing the Tigris River from this point still takes a lot of time for the people of Mosul as the work provokes traffic congestions at peak times.moh
Iraq

MSF hands over activities after six years of healing wounds in Al-Wahda

MSF has handed over medical services at Al-Wahda hospital in Mosul, Iraq, to the Directorate of Health, as the city advances in its recovery after years of deadly battles. Project Update - 3 May 2024
 
So many people have lost relatives in Israeli airstrikes.
Gaza-Israel war

The near impossible task of getting lifesaving supplies into Gaza

Mari Carmen Viñoles, MSF head of emergency programmes, explains the nearly impossible task of delivering lifesaving supplies into Gaza. Op-Ed - 2 May 2024
 
MSF is running a clinic in Zamzam camp, ~15km south east of El Fasher, the state capital, hosting more than 300,000 internally displaced people. MSF teams are offering Ambulatory Therapeutic Feeding services.

A rapid nutrition and mortality assessment carried out by MSF in Zamzam camp in January 2024 reveals that a deadly situation has unfolded over the past nine months

All emergency thresholds for malnutrition have been reached. Almost a quarter of children assessed in the camp were found to be suffering from acute malnutrition, with seven per cent having SAM (severe acute malnutrition) and being at immediate risk of death. , Among children aged six months to two years old, the figures were even more stark with nearly 40 per cent of this age group malnourished – 15 per cent with SAM.

The emergency threshold for SAM, which indicates that urgent action must be taken, is two percent – indicating that a serious emergency situation is present in Zamzam camp.
Conflict in Sudan

Catastrophic malnutrition crisis in Zamzam camp amidst escalating violence in North Darfur

As fighting escalates around El Fasher in North Darfur, Sudan, MSF warns of a catastrophic malnutrition crisis in Zamzam camp. Press Release - 1 May 2024
 
A small pond of muddy, stagnant water between two tents after heavy rains, Al-Hol camp, northeast Syria, 13/12/2023
Syria

Funding cuts for medical referrals in northeast Syria will increase preventable deaths  

People living in dire conditions in camps in northeast Syria are at further risk of preventable deaths due to funding cuts for medical referrals by the World Health Organization.

Press Release - 29 Apr 2024
 
Wael works as MSF crowd controller in the health post run by MSF in Al Mawasi, Gaza Strip. He welcomes people who come for consultation and makes sure the flow of patients is smoothly handled.
Gaza-Israel war

Gaza's silent killings: The destruction of the healthcare system in Rafah

This MSF report from Gaza draws upon medical data and the testimony of patients to demonstrate that even in Rafah conditions for survival are not in place. Report - 29 Apr 2024
 
Follow up consultation at Rafah Indonesian Field Hospital.

My name is Hala Ismael Al Talla. I'm 
21-year-old. 
We are seven family members.
On the sixth day of the war, the front of our house got shelled.
We (family) got displaced so we went to one of our relatives’ houses.
Just a few minutes after we arrived, 
we started to count the shells we could hear. A first, then a second, then a third.
We could hear them leave the tank, fly through the air and then explode.
The fourth shell hit our room and suddenly everything turned white.
My mother was standing still by the wardrobe.
She told me to stand up. I stood up and suddenly I fell. 
I did not know what had happened to my leg.
I started shouting: “My leg, my leg!”
They (family) came from outside after they heard the screaming in the room and they got me out.
Then at 8pm, my father decided to leave to Al-Aqsa hospital.


The injuries are on my right leg. Two broken bones.
I lost my second toe.
At Al-Aqsa hospital they did everything they could and said my leg needed a skin graft.

Later the hospital came under threat.  
When we fled Al-Aqsa hospital, I was on a cart.
I felt the pain as my leg moved with every hole in the road that we went over. It was so hard.
The atmosphere was tough and intense.
With the sound of gunshots, warplanes and drones.
There was shelling everywhere.

Then we came to change my dressing at MSF.
When they checked my injury and saw how severe my condition was, they admitted me.
Right after my admission, they (the doctors) said I needed to have an operation 
to remove my big toe and my third toe because they were dead.
All my pain and suffering was caused by those toes. 
So, they were removed. My wound was cleaned and closed during the second operation.
I am waiting for a third operation, which is a skin graft for my leg and foot.
Gaza-Israel war

People in Gaza at serious risk of preventable deaths as healthcare crumbles

A new MSF report describes the massive struggle faced by Palestinians in Gaza to access medical care and warns of large numbers of preventable deaths caused by disruptions to critical healthcare.   Press Release - 29 Apr 2024
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)

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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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