MSF International President Dr. Joanne Liu, a physician from Montreal, addressed the UN Security Council, and called upon member states to live up to their obligations under UN Resolution 2286 and to stop the relentless assaults on civilian and medical targets.
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Few other surgeons working for Doctor Without Borders/Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF) around the world have as much experience treating war-wounded patients as Dr. Edgar Escalante from Vancouver.
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Crystal van Leeuwen, a Canadian nurse and member of Doctors Without Borders/Médecins Sans Frontières’s (MSF) emergency team, is back from seven months coordinating MSF’s medical activities in Yemen. Van Leeuwen has worked with MSF in countries including Syria, South Sudan, DRC and Nigeria, as well as on Ebola response in West Africa. Here she reflects on her recent mission in Yemen and describes the impacts of war on civilians, medical workers and healthcare facilities.
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Al Zahraa hospital has this week been the latest hospital to be damaged by an airstrike in besieged east Aleppo, where 250,000 people are now trapped in an increasingly unsustainable situation. The medical facility was hit during the bombing on Tuesday evening and had to stop activities after doors, windows and an electricity generator were destroyed. Fortunately, there were no human losses.
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On Monday, August 29, Doctors Without Borders/Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF)’s search and rescue boat Dignity I contributed to the rescue of around 3000 people drifting in about 20 rubber dinghies and several wooden boats, one of which carried between 600-700 people, in the central Mediterranean.
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Following the August 15 aerial bombing of Abs Hospital in Yemen’s Hajjah Governorate, which killed 19 people and injured 24, Doctors Without Borders/Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF) has decided to evacuate its staff from the hospitals it supports in Saada and Hajjah governorates in Northern Yemen, concretely Haydan, Razeh, Al Gamouri, Yasnim hospitals in Saada and Abs and Al Gamouri hospitals in Hajjah. The attack on the Abs hospital is the fourth and deadliest on any MSF-supported facility during this war and here have been countless attacks on other health facilities and services all over Yemen.
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Dispatches is Doctors Without Borders/Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF) Canada's official magazine. In our Summer 2016 issue, we take a look at the global displacement crisis, in which more than 65 million people around the world have been forced from their homes by conflict, persecution or hardship.
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The area around Banki, a town in northeastern Nigeria's Borno State, is currently sheltering some 15,000 people, the vast majority of whom have been displaced from their homes by conflict between government forces and Boko Haram. They are among hundreds of thousands of people in the region facing a severe malnutrition crisis and in need of emergency aid.
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On Dr. Rogy Masri’s last day in Lebanon, staff in four Doctors Without Borders/Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF) clinics in Tripoli ate cakes that had been decorated with an edible photo of his smiling, bearded face to bid him farewell — a testimony to the Toronto-based physician’s popularity with local colleagues. “They knew I have a really sweet tooth,” Dr. Masri chuckles. “I ate a lot of cake during my six-month assignment.”
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Hundreds of interviews with people rescued at sea by MSF during 2015 and 2016 have exposed the alarming level of violence and exploitation to which refugees, asylum seekers and migrants are subjected in Libya. Many of those we have rescued report having directly experienced violence in the country, while almost all report witnessing extreme violence against refugees and migrants, including beatings, sexual violence and murder.
