Military authorities in Myanmar should lift restrictions to facilitate an urgent scale up of humanitarian action to prevent further harm, outbreak of diseases and loss of life. Project Update - 26 Jul 2023

Somalia

Extreme violence in Las Anod forces MSF to close activities 

Following intense fighting in the area, MSF has reached the difficult decision to withdraw our services from Las Anod General Hospital, Sool region, located within the internationally-recognised borders of Somalia. Press Release - 24 Jul 2023

Bashair Hospital treats patients from most of Khartoum and not only the neighbouring area as it is the only operational hospital that is accessible in the south of the city.

Conflict in Sudan

Staff beatings, death threats jeopardise MSF’s presence in Khartoum hospital

On July 20, an MSF team of 18 was assaulted by a group of armed men who physically beat and whipped our colleagues and stole one of our vehicles. Press Release - 21 Jul 2023

MSF works with national authorities at San Francisco de Guayo clinic to provide medical care to communities living on the banks of the Orinoco River in Delta Amacuro state, northeastern Venezuela. The road is only by river and it takes hours to get from one place to another.

MSF trabaja junto a las autoridades locales para brindar atención médica primaria a comunidades aisladas del estado Delta Amacuro, al noreste de Venezuela. El camino es sólo fluvial y toma horas trasladarse de un lugar a otro.

Venezuela

Bridging the gap in healthcare in Venezuela’s Delta Amacuro state

Our teams in Venezuela travel by motorboat in Delta Amacuro to bring medical attention to indigenous communities largely cut off from healthcare. Project Update - 18 Jul 2023

Mesfin Teshome does the triage in front of the mobile clinic. He screens patients for malnutrition cases, addresses basic questions about their health, and helps prioritise the urgent cases by ensuring that people with serious health issues are seen first.

Cholera

Urgent action needed to tackle cholera across Horn of Africa

Despite being preventable, deaths from cholera are on the rise across the Horn of Africa, amid the longest outbreaks ever recorded in the region. Voices from the Field - 13 Jul 2023

On 3 July 2023, MSF team onboard of Geo Barents conducted 4 different rescues in the Maltese SAR zone. In total, 196 survivors were rescued, including 47 unaccompanied minors, 16 women, and 1 baby.

In the first rescue, our team was guided by aerial support from Pilotes Volontaires during the active search for this boat, which lasted more than 1.5 hours.  While the last 3 rescues were all coordinated through the Italian MRCC.

The Italian authorities have assigned us Marina di Carrara as a place of #safety to disembark the survivors.

Mediterranean migration

MSF files complaint to European Commission on search and rescue law

MSF has submitted a complaint to the European Commission, asking to put under scrutiny the content and the Italian authorities’ practice of assigning distant ports. Report - 13 Jul 2023

MSF nurse, Anastasia Prudnikova, monitors a war-wounded patient inside the inpatient department of the medical team during a journey from Pokrovsk, in eastern Ukraine, to Lviv in western Ukraine. The journey takes approximately 20 hours. Since 31 March, we have transported more than 600 patients.

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msf.org - 13 Jul 2023

Mediterranean migration

European Commission must scrutinise Italian law restricting rescues at sea

Five leading NGOs have submitted a complaint to the European Commission about Italian Law 15/2023 and practices hindering saving lives at sea. Press Release - 13 Jul 2023

“This morning we came very early to the clinic, at 4:00 a.m.. We didn't really know where the clinic was and we were told that there would be a long queue. It took us about 4 minutes to arrive here.

I have two children. My eldest is four years old and he is at home. This little one is called Adnelson, he’s only eight months old. He has a problem with his ear, it looks like a pimple. My husband works as a trader; he sells soft drinks while I take care of our children. We have enough to live on. We live with our extended family, with six other people. All the adults of the family have work to be able to make a living.

So far, the children have been in good health and we have not needed any medical treatment. When a child has a fever, we resort to traditional medicine,” says 24-year-old mother, Annette.

International Financial Report 2022

Annual Report - 11 Jul 2023

Haiti

Armed men violently enter Tabarre hospital and forcibly remove patient

All our activities at the Tabarre hospital in the Haitian capital Port-au-Prince are currently suspended, after armed men stormed the facility and forcibly removed a patient with gunshot wounds. Press Release - 7 Jul 2023

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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