“I thought I was going to die in the flames,” says Jordan, who suffered burns over 60 per cent of his body in a tanker truck explosion in Miragoâne, in southwest Haiti, on Sept. 14, 2024. Like him, two other survivors have been receiving care for months at the Doctors Without Borders/Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF) […]
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An insufficient amount of humanitarian assistance is being allowed into the Strip, merely a smokescreen to pretend the siege is over. Meanwhile, at least 20 medical facilities in Gaza have been damaged, or forced partially or completely out of service in the past week by advancing Israeli ground operations, intensified airstrikes and widespread evacuation orders. […]
Read More… from Palestine: Aid instrumentalized, health system under fire in Gaza
The U.S.-Israel proposition to control the distribution of supplies under the guise of humanitarian assistance raises grave humanitarian, ethical, security and legal concerns, says Doctors Without Borders/Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF). Making assistance conditional on forced displacement and vetting of people are other tools in the ongoing campaign of ethnic cleansing of the Palestinian population. MSF […]
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The number of mental health consultations and new patients admitted to the Doctors Without Borders/Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF) Comprehensive Care Centre (Centro de Atención Integral or CAI, in Spanish) for survivors of extreme violence, based in Mexico City has increased significantly in the last six months. MSF attributes the increase to continued violence at the […]
Every attack on healthcare is unacceptable and has consequences. When two Doctors Without Borders/Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF) boats were fired on as they crossed a river in South Sudan in January this year, we had to make a difficult decision to suspend our outreach activities due to safety concerns. Just three months later, MSF’s hospital […]
Read More… from South Sudan: Attacks on healthcare have deep consequences
Port-au-Prince is undergoing an extremely high level of violence as armed groups are coordinating attacks on several areas of the city previously beyond their control. Doctors Without Borders/Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF) is warning that our Tabarre trauma hospital – one of the last in the capital – could reach the limits of its capacity. This […]
Read More… from Haiti: MSF trauma hospital in Port-au-Prince nears limits
Exactly two years after MSF first worked in south Khartoum’s Bashair Teaching Hospital, the team is again scaling up activities to help meet immense medical needs in partnership with the Ministry of Health. MSF suspended activities at the hospital in January 2025 after repeated violent incidents. MSF’s initial focus will be the very worrying and […]
Read More… from Sudan: Healthcare needs high in Khartoum, scale-up urgently needed
On March 28, a 7.7-magnitude earthquake struck central Myanmar. From the epicentre in the city of Sagaing, the tremor was felt across Thailand, Bangladesh, China and Laos. Our teams already in the country immediately organized to travel to the affected areas in Sagaing, Mandalay, Naypyidaw and Southern Shan states to assess initial needs, while our […]
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Three weeks on from the large-scale ground offensive by the Rapid Support Forces on Zamzam camp in early April 2025, reports of intensified fighting in El Fasher continue and more displaced people are arriving in Tawila, North Darfur. With Zamzam camp having been classified as facing famine in August 2024 and many people having been […]
The earthquake that struck Myanmar has worsened an already dire crisis, leaving millions in need. With around 3,800 people killed and 207,000 displaced, the devastation is staggering. Behind these numbers are people. Hear from three survivors as they recount their experiences. “I just want my husband back.” “My name is Ma Win Win. I am 38 […]
Read More… from Myanmar: Earthquake survivors share their stories