The MSF surgical team in Bambari hospital and colleagues in the Ministry of Health treated a total of 36 war-wounded patients at Bambari Regional Hospital.
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By Omar Ebeid, Doctors Without Borders/Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF) Project Coordinator working in Baghdad, Iraq.
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In recent weeks, tens of thousands of displaced people have arrived in cities in the conflict-hit region of Tigray, northern Ethiopia.
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Nineteen-year-old Kundyz, from Karakalpakstan, in northwest Uzbekistan, has been on treatment for multidrug-resistant tuberculosis (TB) for more than eight months. Initially treated in hospital, she later switched to taking her medication at home in the company of a nurse – a method known as directly observed treatment, or DOT. Taking multiple drugs, many with unpleasant […]
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MSF is seeing a dramatic influx of critically ill COVID-19 patients requiring hospitalization in Aden and many other parts of the country.
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Terms of a deal disclosed show that we cannot rely on pharma’s goodwill to do the right thing, even in a pandemic.
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There are currently around 860,000 Rohingya refugees in Bangladesh. Most of them live in Cox’s Bazar district. The activities which Doctors Without Borders/Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF) carries out for these refugees are centralized around the so-called ‘mega camp’, a large collection of 26 camps. In recent years, barbed and razor wire fencing was erected. The living […]
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Health facilities across Ethiopia’s Tigray region have been looted, vandalized and destroyed in a deliberate and widespread attack on healthcare, according to MSF.
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