Welcome to the August 2020 edition of the Recruitment Zone newsletter. The Recruitment Zone helps connect professionals in Canada with opportunities to join Doctors Without Borders/Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF)’s lifesaving humanitarian medical action around the world. We are always seeking skilled medical and non-medical experts who can help us provide essential care to people affected by crisis, conflict, disaster […]
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A week after the devastating blast that took place in Beirut on August 4, 2020, Doctors Without Borders/Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF) is carrying out an emergency response to provide medical support to the people most impacted by the explosion. MSF’s activities cover three main areas of intervention: wound care for people still suffering from injuries, continuity […]
Mosul is located in Ninawa Governorate, home to a population of 3.5 million, with merely one hospital bed for every 3,000 persons.
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Read More… from Mosul, Iraq: MSF teams working on COVID-19 and lifesaving medical care
The COVID-19 pandemic is having a profound impact on the Yazidi community in Sinjar district in north-west Iraq.
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Read More… from Iraq: From one crisis to another for the Yazidis
On August 4, 2020, a powerful blast ripped through the port warehouses near central Beirut in Lebanon, after highly explosive material that was being stored there ignited. More than a hundred people were killed and nearly 5,000 thousand were injured. Two days later the death toll is still growing as more bodies are found under […]
Read More… from Lebanon: MSF teams supporting health services in explosion aftermath in Beirut
MSF is to join Sea-Watch on board the Sea-Watch 4, a new ship bound for lifesaving operations in the Central Mediterranean Sea.
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Three people were shot dead and two were severely injured at the disembarkation site in Khoms on Tuesday night after being returned to Libya, the very same country they were trying to flee. Victims are aged between 15 and 18. This is yet another tragic development showing that migrants in Libya face life-threatening violence and […]
Read More… from Libya: ‘They were shot and killed as they ran to flee arbitrary detention’
MSF strongly condemns the authorities’ failure to identify a solution to keep the isolation centre open when there is still a risk of COVID-19 spreading through nearby Moria reception centre, where more than 15,000 refugees are living in overcrowded and unhygienic conditions.
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Read More… from Greece: MSF forced to close COVID-19 centre in Lesbos
Cepheid charging four times more than it should per test, according to MSF research.
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Four months after COVID-19 was officially declared an international pandemic, the disease has made its way into Northwest Syria, with a first case confirmed on July 9, 2020. Since then, eighteen more people have tested positive for COVID-19 in the area. More than half the positive cases so far are healthcare workers who were working […]
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