Since the beginning of the year Rohingya refugees have been arriving in Bangladesh after escaping escalating violence in Myanmar. They now face immense challenges, including overcrowding, lack of access to essential services and deteriorating mental health conditions. Doctors Without Borders/Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF) is urging the relevant authorities to ensure unhindered and immediate access to […]
MSF volunteers recount their journey from Myanmar and Malaysia to Canada. […]
This article was originally publishing on Globe and Mail. “It would be an honour if a bomb killed all of us together, so we don’t have to suffer anymore. Dying together is better than this suffering.” These were the heartbreaking words a Rohingya man shared with my Doctors Without Borders/Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF) colleagues in […]
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As Rohingya become increasingly trapped by raging conflict in Myanmar’s Rakhine state, those who cannot pay their way across the border into Bangladesh are being left without protection or assistance. “We heard explosions, gunfire and people screaming,” says Ruhul, describing the moment when his township, Buthidaung, was attacked on the evening of May 17. “My […]
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Escalating numbers of Rohingya people with violence-related injuries have crossed the border into Bangladesh over the past week, says Doctors Without Borders/Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF), indicating the worsening humanitarian crisis in Myanmar’s Rakhine state. In the four days leading up to Aug. 7, MSF teams in Cox’s Bazar, Bangladesh, treated 39 people for violence-related injuries. […]
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This June 2024, Doctors Without Borders/Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF) was forced to indefinitely suspend its medical humanitarian activities in northern Rakhine following the extreme escalation of conflict and burning down of MSF’s office in Buthidaung Township. While in some townships in the central part of Rakhine MSF has been able to maintain a minimum level […]
The extreme escalation of conflict, indiscriminate violence, and severe restrictions on humanitarian access in northern Rakhine State, Myanmar, have forced Doctors Without Borders/Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF) to suspend its medical humanitarian activities in the townships of Rathedaung, Buthidaung and Maungdaw. MSF ran 14 mobile clinics in northern Rakhine providing essential medical services to all communities, […]
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More than three years since a military coup in Myanmar led to a surge in conflict across the country, the United Nations estimates that almost two million people have been internally displaced by the ongoing violence, while thousands more have fled to neighbouring countries. In Rakhine State – an area in the west of Myanmar […]
Since Feb. 4, Doctors Without Borders/Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF) in Cox’s Bazar, Bangladesh, has treated 27 people with gunshot or shrapnel wounds. Sixteen patients were critically injured, and one patient died upon arrival. All the injuries from those 27 patients were related to renewed outbreaks of violence in the border areas between Myanmar and Bangladesh. […]
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Six years after an unprecedented exodus of Rohingya people1 from Myanmar to Bangladesh, medical needs in the world’s largest refugee camp remain pressing and care increasingly inadequate. In a global context marked by multiple large-scale humanitarian crises, international funding allocated to the humanitarian response for these one million stateless people is under increased pressure year […]
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