First-person account by Léo Cans, MSF country director, Palestine (based in Jerusalem) “The situation in Gaza is catastrophic; the hospitals are overwhelmed. The number of wounded is extremely high – there is a constant influx into all the hospitals in the Gaza Strip. The medical teams are exhausted, working around the clock to treat the […]
MSF health promoter Aisha is working in the three camps in the White Nile region, Sudan, supporting communities of internally displaced people and refugees. I can’t find the right words to describe the conditions people are living in. I’ve witnessed women giving birth and caring for their newborns in overcrowded and overheated tents, without access […]
Read More… from Sudan: “The scale of the needs here is overwhelming”
Interview, from Derna, with Michel Olivier Lacharité, MSF Head of Emergency. Two weeks after Storm Daniel caused devastating floods that engulfed Derna and killed thousands in a few hours, search and rescue operations are about to end and reconstruction is starting. The need for psychological relief is immense among Derna’s people. Doctors Without Borders/Médecins Sans […]
Read More… from Libya: MSF doctors and psychologists bring support to a mourning city
In the bitterly cold Afghan winter, lower-income families face unexpected risks as they struggle to keep warm. Doctors Without Borders/Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF) nurse Diana Pereira de Sousa shares the story from Kunduz, a city in northern Afghanistan … “Can you come to the ER? It’s urgent.” The call was from Boyd, one of our […]
In Mumbai, MSF runs an independent private clinic to treat drug-resistant tuberculosis (DR-TB). India has one of the world’s highest burdens of TB, and Mumbai is a hotspot for the disease. Here, MSF’s clinic focuses on extensive drug-resistant cases, a form of the disease that has limited treatment options. The team uses newer drugs in […]
Read More… from Glimpses into the Fight Against Drug Resistant Tuberculosis (DR-TB)
On Aug. 24, 2023, the Canadian government finally released an outcomes document from the Pandemic Instrument Partner and Stakeholder Engagement Forum it held March 21 to 22, with more than 160 participants from multiple sectors. We both attended representing Doctors Without Borders/Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF). During the intervening five months, multiple rounds of negotiations of […]
For hundreds of thousands of displaced people living in camps around Goma, survival is a daily struggle, especially for women. Every day, around 701 women who are survivors of sexual assault present themselves at the structures set up by MSF in the Lushagala, Bulengo, Elohim, Shabindu, Rusayo and Kanyaruchinya sites – an unacceptable situation. The […]
Read More… from DRC: The daily struggles of women in Goma’s displacement camps
Since floods lashed eastern Libya more than a week ago, estimated figures are that nearly 10,000 people are missing and at least 5,000 people are dead. Derna, a port city in eastern Libya, was the worst hit after two dams burst killing thousands. According to the UN, about 30,000 people — one third of its […]
In Jonglei state, northeastern South Sudan, Doctors Without Borders/Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF) teams are rushing four critically ill patients by ambulance boat to the MSF hospital in Old Fangak. Among the people on the boat, Nya Sibet Mar is holding her two-year-old daughter, Nya Thor, who is suffering from severe malaria. It is the second […]
On Sept. 8, a powerful 6.8-magnitude earthquake struck Morocco at 11 p.m. local time. So far, more than 2,000 lives have been lost. Doctors Without Borders/Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF) is extremely saddened by the tragic news of the earthquake that has hit Morocco and the high number of victims already reported. What is MSF doing? Earthquake […]