News updates

Haiti : 19 January 2010

Haiti: Supply problems threatening patients’ lives

Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF) wards and operating theatres in and around Port-au-Prince are still working through very heavy caseloads and the medical staff there are increasingly concerned about supply problems that are...[more]

 

Haiti : 19 January 2010

Haiti: MSF plane with lifesaving medical supplies diverted again from landing

Patients in dire need of emergency care dying from delays in arrival of medical supplies[more]

 

Haiti : 18 January 2010

Haiti Slideshow : January 18, 2010

Canadian photographer Julie Rémy is in Port-au-Prince with Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF). The aid workers are providing emergency healthcare following the earthquake in Haiti on Jan. 12.[more]

 

Haiti : 17 January 2010

Haiti Slideshow : January 17, 2010

 

 

Haiti : 16 January 2010

Haiti Slideshow : January 16, 2010

 

 

Haiti : 13 January 2010

MSF aid worker rescued from Haiti rubble after almost 24 hours

Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF) aid worker Danielle Trépanier was rescued Wednesday afternoon after almost 24 hours under the rubble of a collapsed MSF staff house. At the time of the quake, Trépanier, a Canadian logistics...[more]

 

Haiti : 13 January 2010

Haiti: Update

The first reports are now emerging from Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF) teams who were already working on medical projects Haiti. They are treating hundreds of people injured in the quake and have been setting up clinics in tents...[more]

 

NEWS : 12 January 2010

Haiti: Earthquake damages medical centres in Port-au-Prince

On January 12, a magnitude 7.0 quake struck about 15 kilometres southwest of the Haitian capital, Port-au-Prince. Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF) teams on the ground have witnessed significant damage to the humanitarian...[more]

 

Democratic Republic of Congo : 08 January 2010

DRC: MSF starts work in the “hunger prison” in Bunia

Over a two-month period, 17 prisoners referred from Bunia Prison to the city’s hospital have died of severe malnutrition. The Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF) team working in Bunia, located in the eastern district of Ituri,...[more]