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Yemen

Record number of babies born on hospital’s one-year anniversary

On 7 November, Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF) marked the one-year anniversary of its mother and child hospital in Taiz, assisting in the deliveries of 24 babies in a single day. Project Update - 10 Nov 2016
 
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Syria

It has taken four years and 20 surgical operations to repair the damage

East Aleppo's besieged residents have been told to leave their homes or face annihilation. As they brace themselves for what comes next, Amal Abdullah recalls the day four years ago when she was told to leave the east Aleppo neighbourhood where she grew up. Voices from the Field - 8 Nov 2016
 
The waiting room of the MSF-supported Mbalazime health centre, Bangassou sub-prefecture, Central African Republic.
Central African Republic

Great humanitarian need, little international attention

Project Update - 1 Nov 2016
 
In Kousseri city, the number of displaced people who have fled violence could reach 40 000. They are scattered around the city and are hosted by local families. 
MSF is supporting 3 health centers in the city of Kousseri (Madana, Madagascar, Amchidiré) including ambulatory therapeutic treatment centers (ATFC) for severe acute malnutrition. In Madana and Amchidiré, under five OPD and cover up vaccination is also provided by MSF, along with mental health support. Activities are open several times a week (from 2 to 5 times according to the number of patients seeking care). The main illnesses are diarrhea, malaria skin diseases and respiratory tract infections. Complicated cases are referred to Kousseri regional Hospital.
Lake Chad Crisis

Lake Chad: Years of Forgotten Crisis

Located in west-central Africa at the junction of Chad, Nigeria, Niger, and Cameroon, Lake Chad was once among the continent’s largest bodies of water. Owing to a combination of climate change and overuse, however, Lake Chad’s size has steadily dwindled, putting the region’s population of roughly 30 million people under increasing strain. But diminishing resources are not the only thing they have to fear. Medium.com - 31 Oct 2016
 
Men and young boys gather in the emergency room of Boost hospital in Lashkar Gah, Helmand, Afghanistan.

Boost hospital is run by MSF in partnership with the Ministry of Public Health. It is one of the biggest MSF runs worldwide: 300 beds, 700 national staff, 25 international staff.
Photo: Kadir van Lohuizen / NOOR
Lashkar Gah, Helmand, Afghanistan
Afghanistan

Many of those who left were in critical need of treatment

An account of life in Boost hospital amid armed fighting in Lashkar Gah Voices from the Field - 26 Oct 2016
 
The photos were taken on October 5 in east Aleppo. They show the exteriors of the M10 hospital, the main trauma centre, which is supported by Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF). The facility was heavily damaged by shelling and forced to suspend activities on Wednesday September 28. On October 1 it was damaged again and went out of service and two days later, while under rehabilitation, it was hit yet another time by bombs and a number of maintenance workers were killed.
Syria

We try to sleep for half an hour to gain the strength to perform another surgery

"We’ve got used to the daily scenes following a mass bombing, when hospitals are so crowded with wounded that we have to step over people to reach other patients in need," says Dr Abu Huthaifa. Voices from the Field - 16 Oct 2016
 
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Syria

We’ve been working every day around the clock

Testimony by Dr Abu Huthaifa, a surgeon from Aleppo, Syria Voices from the Field - 13 Oct 2016
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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