E-Hub: Enhancing Emergency Response Coordination Through Training
A medical emergency is an immediate threat to a person's health or even life and requires intervention. Medical emergencies can be due to injuries, il...
Natural disasters
Indonesia
E-Hub: Data management during disasters and humanitarian crisis
Indonesia is a country with diverse natural beauty, culture and wildlife; however, due to its location on the Ring of Fire, it is also subject to the ...
Natural disasters
Philippines
The Philippines: Houses, rice fields submerged by Tropical Storm Trami
In Bula, Camarines Sur, Doctors Without Borders reaches the hardest-hit communities, where clean drinking water is one of the most urgent needs.
Natural disasters
Bangladesh
Providing medical and sanitation support following devastating floods in Bangladesh
In mid-September, the floodwaters had barely subsided in Noakhali, in southern Bangladesh, when the devastating consequences began to unfold. Among th...
Natural disasters
Nigeria
Nigeria: fears of outbreaks grow in Maiduguri following severe flooding
Doctors Without Borders calls for urgent additional support for massive flooding in Maiduguri, Nigeria, especially in terms of water, sanitation, and ...
Natural disasters
Afghanistan
Afghanistan: Life after earthquakes in Herat
Since Saturday 7 October, Herat Province in western Afghanistan has been hit by three powerful earthquakes as well as innumerable aftershocks of varyi...
Natural disasters
South Africa
South Africa: Music – medicine a doctor can't prescribe
In Durban, South Africa, following devastating floods in April 2022, Doctors Without Borders / Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF)'mental health team has b...
Natural disasters
Mental health
Pakistan
Pakistan floods: Shahid's Story
Shahid Abdullah is an emergency field coordinator with Doctors Without Borders /Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF) in Balochistan, Pakistan. He describes ...
Natural disasters
Emergency response
Pakistan
Pakistan: Responding to the emergency at home
Akeela, an Outreach Counsellor with Doctors Without Borders / Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF) since 2020, lived in the village of Mir Gul Hassan Manju ...
