Europe & Central Asia

 
A baby being examined in the neonatal care unit at Boost Hospital, Afghanistan
Europe & Central Asia

Afghanistan

On 12 May 2020 the Doctors Without Borders (MSF) maternity ward in Dasht-e-Barchi hospital, Kabul, was attacked. Gunmen killed 24 people, including 16 mothers, two children, and an MSF midwife.
 
Europe & Central Asia

Albania

MSF first worked in Albania in 1998 and closed its projects in 2000.
 
X-rays of a drug-resistant tuberculosis patient. Armenia, February 2014.
Europe & Central Asia

Armenia

Doctors Without Boders (MSF) has helped to tackle resistant forms of tuberculosis (TB) in Armenia since 2015. In 2019, we handed over our remaining activities to the national health authorities.
 
A Syrian man and his infant son sit in their tent at Harmanli Camp, a former military installation in Bulgaria. A major increase in the number of migrants crossing into Bulgaria in recent months has strained Bulgaria's existing system. Authorities have quickly moved migrants into makeshift facilities including abandoned schools, tents, containers and military barracks.
Europe & Central Asia

Bulgaria

MSF first worked in Bulgaria in 1981 and closed its projects in 2015.
 
About 22,000 people live here in an improvised camp near Vojnic. Trapped between Croatian checkpoints, they are living along the road in the worst conditions. MSF is running a health post together with the ICRC. MSF's water supply for the people living here.
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Croatia

MSF closed its projects in Croatia in 1998.
 
MSF staff at the Doctors Without Borders mobile clinic
Europe & Central Asia

France

When COVID-19 hit France, our priority was to assist the most vulnerable groups, including homeless people, refugees, and undocumented migrants, as well as residents of nursing homes.