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With the shutting down of European Gaza Hospital due to new evacuation orders, Nasser Hospital becomes the last comprehensive hospital remaining in south Gaza, and risks being overwhelmed.

Of the more than 69,000 Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF) staff in 2023, many thousands are nurses. Here, four MSF nurses from northwest Syria share a bit about their experiences: what a good day looks like, stories from their work, and some of the challenges they have overcome. 

Since the beginning of the war in Sudan over a year ago, almost 680,000 people have crossed the border to seek refuge in South Sudan. Thousands of families are stuck in dire conditions, lacking food, water and shelter.

After years of conflict in eastern Ukraine and following the full-scale war from February 2022, many people in Ukraine have been suffering from mental health injuries. A specially trained Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF) mental health promotion team is bringing relief through psychological consultations and recreational group activities.

For the estimated 1.5 million Syrian refugees seeking refuge in Lebanon, accessing vital medical services is becoming increasingly difficult due to growing fears and restrictions on their movement. As the country strains under its fifth year of severe economic crisis, the intolerance Syrian refugees face continues to increase. 

As the rainy season begins in Chad, MSF is significantly scaling up its activities in eastern Chad to provide life-saving essentials for refugees who fled the war in Sudan. This response fills a critical gap left by UN agencies, as countless families in these camps have been living without proper shelter for over a year.

Fadi is the sixth MSF staff member who has been killed in Gaza since 7 October and one of 500 health workers killed by the Israeli forces during the same time according to the United Nations.

Nearly 20 per cent of Rohingya refugees tested in the camps of Cox's Bazar, Bangladesh, have an active hepatitis C infection. This alarming figure from a recent study carried out by Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF) and Epicentre, the epidemiology and medical research arm of MSF, highlights the consequences of decades of inadequate healthcare and difficult living conditions, characterised by violence, discrimination and insecurity. 

The extreme escalation of conflict, indiscriminate violence, and severe restrictions on humanitarian access in northern Rakhine State, Myanmar, have forced Médecins Sans Frontières / Doctors Without Borders (MSF) to suspend medical humanitarian activities in the townships of Rathedaung, Buthidaung and Maungdaw.