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Surgery & trauma care

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Médecins Sans Frontières has been providing surgical care for people in precarious contexts for more than 40 years.

Surgery in a humanitarian situation is often associated with armed conflict. Yet our teams conduct operations for a variety of needs. In 2022, one in five of the major surgeries we performed were caesarean sections, which is difficult to access in countries with a failing health system or in humanitarian emergencies. The opening of a surgical programme has a number of prerequisites which need medical and logistics resources, such as sterile conditions, qualified personnel, and post-operative capacity.

Quick facts about surgery and trauma care

Surviving violence
Here, the weekends are always intense.. we deal with even four patients with gunshot wounds at the same time. Francesco Virdis, surgeon

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East Damascus - voice from the field
Syria

Everyone is fatigued with the fear and deaths – a doctor in a Damascus suburb

Voices from the Field 10 Mar 2016
 
Barrel bombing of MSF Supported Hospital
Syria

The feeling of powerlessness is excruciating, but I cannot abandon my people

Voices from the Field 9 Mar 2016
 
North Yemen: living under daily coalition airstrikes
Yemen

Crisis update – 3 March 2016

Crisis Update 3 Mar 2016
 
Yemen.Shiara hospital bleeding after attack.
Yemen

“I’d never before seen the level of casualties I saw in Saada. The scale of wounded was extreme.”

Voices from the Field 27 Jan 2016
 
Yemen.Shiara hospital bleeding after attack.
Yemen

"They didn’t realise that the missile had hit the hospital itself."

Voices from the Field 25 Jan 2016
 
Nigeria

MSF transforms faces and lives of patients suffering from noma

Project Update 22 Oct 2015
 
Afghanistan

“By midday our hospital was on the frontline, with fighting right outside the gate”

Voices from the Field 1 Oct 2015
 
New MSF Hospital in Amman
Jordan

Upgraded reconstructive surgery hospital for victims of war in Amman

Project Update 24 Sep 2015
 
Jordan

Patients testimonies from the upgraded reconstructive surgery hospital in Amman

Voices from the Field 7 Sep 2015
Advanced HIV management in Homa Bay
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