Afghanistan earthquake: Doctors Without Borders sends teams to the worst-affected areas
Following the earthquake that struck Khost and Paktika provinces in Afghanistan on the night of 21 to 22 June, Doctors Without Borders / Médecins Sans...
Natural disasters
Palestine
Responding to the injured in Jerusalem: “The patients kept on coming like waves”
On Friday, 15 April 2022, Israeli forces stormed the Al-Aqsa compound in Jerusalem and injured over 150 Palestinians, including children. Carlo Brugio...
War and conflict
Myanmar
Myanmar: 17 Rohingya killed in capsized boat
We are devastated to hear about the needless deaths of at least 17 Rohingya off the coast of Myanmar after the boat they set sail in from Sittwe last ...
Rohingya refugee crisis
Palestine
Gaza: Some wounds never heal
From 10th to 21st of May 2021, Israeli airstrikes and shelling on the Gaza Strip killed 256 people, including 66 children. Around 2,000 Palestinians w...
War and conflict
Afghanistan
“We rushed her to the red zone”: Saving a young life in Afghanistan
On a very busy measles ward, a baby struggles to breathe. The team does not have access to a ventilator, but instead use a technique more commonly ass...
Measles
Child health
Dreams and detours: How I became a Doctors Without Borders nurse
From childhood dreams to the frontline of humanitarian healthcare, Filipina nurse Ji shares the less thanstraight forward path that led her to Doctors...
Afghanistan
Khost Maternity Hospital is Open 24/7 – we rest when we have the chance
Renny Anggia Julianti is an Indonesian Ob-Gynecologist. On her first mission in 2019, she was assigned in Khost maternity hospital, Afghanistan. And s...
Maternal health
Child health
Ukraine
Ukraine: Caring for the vulnerable people left behind by the war
Doctors Without Boders' Dr Natalie Roberts has just come back from Ukraine, where she witnessed the severe challenges facing some of the most vulnerab...
War and conflict
Ukraine
“You have a medical train? I have patients for you.”
On the morning of Friday 1 April, Doctors Without Borders / Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF) finalised the first transfer or patients using a medical tr...
