Armed Conflict
When conflicts erupt, MSF immediately sends teams of doctors, surgeons, anaesthetists, specialised nurses and logisticians to the field with the necessary equipment to establish operating rooms and clinics, provide essential health care and train local medical and support staff. Nutrition services and epidemic control programmes are often an essential part of MSF’s life-saving services provided to people trapped in conflict or displaced by the fighting.
27 April 2012
MSF supporting health structures near the border with Sudan and assisting displaced people
Tensions and hostilities continue unabated between South Sudan and its northern neighbour Sudan, and MSF is scaling up its emergency response by treating people injured in the latest violence, giving material and staff support to local clinics and hospitals, and providing relief to people displaced by the fighting.
MSF currently provides life-saving surgery in Aweil and Agok for patients wounded in the recent violence. The organisation also reinforced its surgical response capacity in case of a general degradation of the situation.
MSF has also donated medicines and medical supplies to local hospitals in Abiemnom and...
08 February 2012
Patients treated by doctors in Syria
25 January 2012
South Sudan: A 24 year-old woman who was shot in the leg and in the cheek in the attack on Lekwongole on December 27th, 2011. Her only daughter, 3, was abducted
24 January 2012
Lekwongole, a village north of Pibor town where MSF runs a clinic, scarcely exists now, and all that remains of the MSF clinic is the concrete floor and walls.
19 January 2012
Other projects in Somalia continue, but MSF medical assistance in Somali capital reduced by half.
Following the tragic killings of our colleagues Philippe Havet and Dr. Karel Keiluhu in Mogadishu, Somalia, on the 29th of December 2011, the medical humanitarian organization Medecins Sans Frontieres (MSF) sees itself forced to end all activities in the Hodan district of the capital, including the closure of two separate 120-bed medical facilities for the treatment of malnutrition, measles and the treatment of cholera.
The closure of activities in this district halves the assistance MSF is providing in Mogadishu. For now, MSF projects will continue to provide medical care in the other districts of the capital, as well as in 10...
16 January 2012
Juba - Following inter-communal violence on 11th January in northern Jonglei State, South Sudan, the medical humanitarian aid organisation Medecins Sans Frontieres/Doctors Without Borders (MSF) referred by air thirteen patients with serious wounds from the organisation’s clinic in Yuai, Jonglei State. The patients were taken to MSF’s hospital in Nasir, Upper Nile State, where they are receiving urgent surgical treatment. Five adult women and two adult men had gunshot wounds and the remaining six patients were children under five, with beatings or gunshot wounds.
“We are very concerned that the majority of the wounded in this latest wave of violence are women and children,” said MSF Head of Mission for South...
11 January 2012
MSF primary health care hospital in Pibor County, Sudan.
03 January 2012
The MSF primary health care hospital in Pibor County, which was destroyed in the recent violence. Liang Zi/MSF
