The challenges for pregnant women in remote areas At the first light of dawn, Douillette, a village nestled in the commune of Chardonnières, in southwestern Haiti, begins to wake up. Market stalls are slowly set up and children rush to their schools in this part of the country’s South department. Manita, 39, seven months pregnant, […]
Read More… from Haiti: “When it rains, it’s impossible to reach the hospital”
On April 4, Russian forces struck the city of Kryvyi Rih in Ukraine’s Dnipropetrovsk region. According to regional authorities, 18 people were killed, including nine children. “People were burned alive in their cars near their homes. On the playground, we saw the lifeless bodies of many children – it was heartbreaking,” says Yevhen Blinnikov, a paramedic […]
Read More… from Ukraine: MSF teams support, provide ambulance referrals after attack on Kryvyi Rih
We’re getting ready for what seems will be a long and intense emergency. The healthcare system has been severely impacted at multiple levels, with secondary care being particularly affected. Hospitals, including operating rooms, are non-functional—not only for emergency surgeries but also for essential procedures like cesarean sections. Doctors Without Borders/Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF) teams are […]
Read More… from Myanmar: MSF warns of severe healthcare disruptions amid ongoing emergency
Doctors Without Borders/Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF) is appalled and saddened by the killing of our colleague Hussam Al Loulou by an airstrike on the morning of April 1 in southwest of Deir al Balah, central Gaza. His wife and 28-year-old daughter were also killed in this horrendous attack. Our colleague Hussam was killed along with […]
Read More… from Gaza: MSF mourns the killing of eleventh colleague
A month-long siege imposed by Israeli authorities in Gaza, Palestine, means some critical medications are now short in supply and are running out, leaving Palestinians at risk of losing vital healthcare, warns Doctors Without Borders/Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF). As Israeli forces continue to bomb the Gaza Strip, depriving people of basic needs, including food, water […]
A humanitarian crisis is rapidly unfolding on both sides of the South Sudan-Ethiopia border, as escalating violence, displacement and a widespread cholera outbreak are pushing communities to the brink, Doctors Without Borders/Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF) warns. Clashes between government forces and armed groups, which initially began in South Sudan’s Upper Nile state, could spread to other […]
Read More… from South Sudan, Ethiopia: Cholera spreads across border, people flee ongoing violence
With only a few health facilities still functioning in Darfur, pregnant women face harrowing journeys to seek care. Insecurity, checkpoints and unaffordable or unavailable transportation force them to undertake day-long treks on foot or donkey, often resulting in delivery complications, miscarriage or death. Doctors Without Borders/Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF) operates in ten out of Sudan’s […]
Read More… from Sudan: Miscarriage or delivery complications, pregnant women’s fate in Darfur
Doctors Without Borders/Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF) has witnessed a renewed spike in atrocities in Ituri province, northeastern Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC), where our medical teams are providing care for civilians with horrific injuries. In a new report, “Risking Their Lives to Survive,” MSF underscores the extreme needs of many communities endangered by recent attacks, […]
Doctors Without Borders/Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF) strongly condemns Israel’s strike on Nasser hospital in Khan Younis – the largest remaining functioning hospital in the Gaza Strip, where MSF teams work. On March 23, Israeli forces targeted the hospital’s inpatient surgical department, killing two people, according to the Ministry of Health. MSF teams confirmed there were […]
Read More… from Palestine: MSF condemns Israeli strike on Nasser hospital in Gaza
In the rubble of a shattered ceasefire and more deaths, another tactic of war is playing out as Israeli authorities essentially block access to water by cutting electricity and fuel from entering Gaza, warns Doctors Without Borders/Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF). As Israeli forces continue to rain down bombs on the Strip, MSF calls for the […]
Read More… from Palestine: Amid shattered ceasefire, water becomes another weapon of war