Luca, an MSF doctor on board the search and rescue ship Ocean Viking, recounts the story told to him by a 20-year-old Libyan man rescued in the Central Mediterranean with shrapnel in his torso...
Thursday, August 22, 2019 — Flashquote: Dr Luca Pigozzi, medical doctor onboard Ocean Viking “It’s been now 13 days that 356 vulnerable people are stranded onboard Ocean Viking. Every day we see the...
The rainy season arrived several weeks ago in West and Central Africa, bringing with it seasonal diseases. Cases of cholera have already been identified in northern Cameroon, where Médecins Sans...
The current Ebola outbreak in Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) is the worst on record in the country and the second-largest epidemic of the disease recorded anywhere. Almost a year after the...
Hundreds of thousands of ethnic Rohingya people are living in legal limbo after fleeing targeted violence in Rakhine state, Myanmar. Denied rights in both Myanmar and the countries to which they’ve...
Two years after the most recent spate of violence in Rakhine state, little has changed for displaced Rohingya Sitting in a teashop in Kutupalong, the massive refugee megacamp where hundreds of...
Testimonios de dos médicos del Médicos Sin Fronteras a bordo del barco de búsqueda y rescate El Ocean Viking navega en aguas internacionales al noroeste de Malta sin entrar en las aguas territoriales...
Metun* is a Rohingya refugee living in the Kutupalong-Balukhali megacamp in Cox’s Bazar, Bangladesh. He previously lived in Rakhine, Myanmar, working for NGOs there. He now volunteers with NGOs in...
After each of the four rescues, the MSF medical team completes a primary medical assessment, examining the medical needs of the rescued people. As well as assessing the physical scars, wounds and...
NEW YORK/KINSHASA, DRC, August 16, 2019–A measles epidemic officially declared on June 10 in the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) has killed 2,758 people and infected 145,000 in the deadliest...