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21 May 2013
Peter Maurer, President of the International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC) and Unni Karunakara, International President of Doctors Without Borders (MSF)Armed men in hospitals, harassing patients; health facilities used to identify and apprehend enemies; clinics abandoned and hospitals destroyed. Overwhelmed emergency services, where medical staff are in terror of reprisals for having provided care for a patient; ambulances blocked from accessing the wounded, or...
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21 May 2013
A man comes out of a mosque in the north of Syria. It is the main Muslim place of worship for Syrians forced to leave their homes and now living in a camp alongside the Turkish border, in Aleppo province. A few months ago, 4,000 people were staying in this temporary settlement – now there are around 10,000. Most live in tents, but Hussein Alwawi and his family have found refuge inside the local mosque.Syria: A mosque in a transit camp in Aleppo province, next to the...
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20 May 2013
Àngels Mairal, a Doctors Without Borders (MSF) psychologist, arrived in Yemen this past March. After a few weeks, the Yemeni authorities started releasing migrants who had been detained on illegal farms, some of them victims of torture. At the same time, deportations of foreigners from Saudi Arabia into Yemen increased, as did the number of migrants who voluntarily wanted to return home. Mairal has been assisting this population.Hindia and her children have been in...
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20 May 2013
MSF runs a mental health program in Ain el-Helweh, in Saida, Lebanon. More and more patients are Palestinian refugees who fled Syria and suffer from a high level of trauma. Mahmood, Siham and their son Mahmood (6) were forced to leave Syria. Photo by: Auriele Lachant/MSF“I’m deeply sad inside, but I need to appear strong in front of my family. It’s very difficult. Seven of my relatives were killed by the bombings and shootings in Syria. We saw their...
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16 May 2013
Overcrowding and poor living conditions in Iraq’s Domeez camp have led to a recent deterioration in refugees’ health. As the camp swells with new arrivals has doubled its number of staff, who are currently providing 3,500 consultations per week, running emergency vaccination campaigns and going from tent to tent with supplies of clean drinking water. MSF emergency coordinator Stéphane Reynier, just back from Domeez, describes the effect of poor living conditions on the...
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07 May 2013
A young woman from Syria starts a new life in Turkey after being shot by a sniper Salwah Mekrsh Eighteen-year-old Salwah Mekrsh is unable to walk. Her mother and her sister push Salwah’s wheelchair through the streets of Kilis, a Turkish city near the border with Syria. The three of them stop under the shade of a lemon tree in a small courtyard. As Salwah waits for her mental health consultation with Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF) to begin, they talk about...
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03 May 2013
MSF Psychologist Audrey Magis has just returned from spending two months working in Syria. Her role was to set up and run a mental health programme in one of MSF’s projects in the north of the country. Previously she had worked for MSF in Gaza, in Libya and in a camp for Syrian refugees. She explains how the war has affected people and what MSF is doing to help. Audrey Magis, MSF psychologist. Photo: MSF In most places I have worked, people are rather hesitant when...
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03 May 2013
Four hospitals inside Syria and 100,000+ consultations for Syrian refugeesMSF Syria-Crisis Update, 3 May 2013Mohamed, is examined by German anesthetist Hans Gerber of MSF before undergoing surgery to remove a bullet lodged in his abdomen at the MSF clinic in Northern Syria. Photo: Nicole TungThe conflict in Syria is extremely intense, with moving front-lines, enclaves of people cut off from assistance, an estimated 6.8 million people in urgent need of humanitarian assistance...
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26 April 2013
Dr. Deogracia Kabila, Medical Team Leader for MSF emergency response in Tissi, Chad. On April 17th, MSF Dr. Deo Kabila was at a refugee site in Am Doukhum, Chad, on the border of Sudan, preparing for a vaccination campaign for the local population, refugees and Chadian returnees. It was the end of the day, and he and his team were on their way back to the MSF base when they received an emergency call advising them to turn around and go back....
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23 April 2013
The team working at one of MSF's hospitals in Northern Syria has learned to adapt to a changing situation. As the front lines have moved further away, the influx of patients has decreased, but in the last months the number of burn victims has grown. During the winter, families relied on rudimentary stoves for heat. Domestic accidents occur frequently or gunfire causes panic. At those moments, the stove may explode or the fuel canister may catch on fire. “Burn...
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