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Libya: Detainees tortured and denied medical care

26 January 2012

Libya. MSF physiotherapist with a patient in a prison in Misrata.

MSF Suspends Work in Detention Centres in Misrata TRIPOLI – Detainees in the Libyan city of Misrata are being tortured and denied urgent medical care, leading the international medical humanitarian organisation Médecins Sans Frontières/Doctors Without Borders (MSF) to suspend its operations in detention centres in Misrata, MSF announced today. Libya. MSF physiotherapist with a patient in a prison in Misrata. Photo: Benoit Finck MSF teams began working in Misrata’s detention centres in August, 2011, to treat war-wounded detainees. Since then, MSF doctors were increasingly confronted with patients who suffered injuries caused by torture during interrogation sessions....

MSF in Haiti: Two Years on

11 January 2012

MSF teams treating cholera patients in Saint-Marc, Artibonite region, Haiti.

Two years after the devastating earthquake in Port-au-Prince, nearly 500,000 displaced Haitians are still living in extremely precarious conditions. MSF is still working to contain the cholera epidemic and to provide emergency medical care. Access to free care in Haiti remains indeed virtually non-existent for people who live in precarious conditions, those who are far from urban centers or those who can not afford health care in the private facilities that exist in Haiti. In the aftermath of the earthquake of January 2010, MSF launched the largest emergency response in its history, providing care for 358,000 people, making 16,570 surgical operations and making 15,100 deliveries over a 10-months period. During the cholera...

Haiti: MSF increases hospital capacity in the area affected by the earthquake

10 January 2012

Haiti earthquake, one month on

Two years after the earthquake, the health care system in Port-au-Prince and surrounding areas is still in disarray. Most Haitians still lack proper access to emergency care. December 2010. Two weeks after the opening of the cholera treatment centre in Cap Haitien Gymnasium, the sensitisation team has moved from 6 members to more than 40 community health workers. Photo: Aurelie Lachant / MSF January 12, 2010 will forever remain engraved in Haiti's collective memory. Nearly everyone in the country lost a relative, friend or neighbour in the earthquake that hit that day, and many survivors continue to suffer physical or psychological after-effects. The piles of rubble and gaping holes in the streets...

MSF Frontline Reports podcast: The Struggle For Basic Medical Care in North Kivu, DRC

24 November 2011

MSF in Democratic Republic of Congo

Paul Brockmann worked as the project coordinator for a year in the Médecins Sans Frontières / Doctors Without Borders (MSF) primary health care program in and around the village of Mweso, in North Kivu Province. People living in this area of eastern Democratic Republic of Congo have to contend with ongoing insecurity and outbreaks of violence that push them out of their homes. They suffer from preventable diseases like cholera, measles, and malaria, and are often unable to access medical care. Which is why MSF has been working there for 30 years. Here Brockmann describes what he saw during his time in North Kivu.

Libya – Bringing urgent medical care to strife-hit Sirte

05 October 2011

Libya: Emergency surgery by MSF

On 3 October MSF teams managed to deliver medicines and medical supplies to the city of Sirte, at the heart of the current fighting in Libya. For the last ten days, MSF has attempted to deliver aid to Sirte where, according to doctors in the town, the healthcare situation has continued to deteriorate. Libya: During the peak of the fighting between rebels and pro-Ghadaffi forces, 16-year old Ibrahim was hit by a bullet when he was driving in a car to the mosque together with his parents. Photo: Niklas Bergstrand/MSF “They say that their hospital is overrun with wounded and they aren’t always able to respond to...

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