Approximately one in six war-wounded patients treated at the Bashair Teaching Hospital in south Khartoum since January 2024 have been under the age of 15, Médecins Sans Frontières / Doctors Without Borders (MSF) has found.
Isabelle Defourny, president of MSF France, and Christopher Lockyear, MSF Secretary General, highlight the dire situation in north Gaza, where people have been facing one of the most vicious and violent attacks since the beginning of the war.
A series of threats by Haitian police forces against Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF) staff have forced the organisation to suspend its activities until further notice in the metropolitan area of Port-au-Prince, Haiti. In the past week, police officers have stopped MSF vehicles multiple times and directly threatened MSF staff members, including by threatening death and rape.
The conflict in Sudan—the world's largest internal displacement crisis—continues to rage, impacting millions. Dr Mohamed Bashir, MSF's former deputy medical coordinator in Sudan and now on assignment in South Sudan, shares his reflections on the far-reaching conflict as both medical humanitarian and a Sudanese person.
A densely populated area in Sumy city, northeastern Ukraine, was bombed on the evening on 17 November. MSF emergency ambulance teams provided medical assistance to injured residents.
MSF condemns in the strongest terms the killing of at least two patients who were executed after an MSF ambulance was stopped by members of a vigilante group and law enforcement officers.
In the heart of Beirut, one initiative is providing a lifeline for people housed in the Al Azarieh building—once a bustling commercial centre, now a shelter for more than 2,500 people who have been displaced by Israeli bombardments and incursions.
To mitigate the deadly consequences of blockages to access to healthcare, MSF trains volunteer paramedics in refugee camps so they can stabilise patients during active hostilities, in case ambulances are not able to reach them.
We are extremely alarmed by the detention of our colleague, Dr Mohammed Obeid, an MSF orthopaedic surgeon. He has been detained by Israeli forces along with several medical staff from Kamal Adwan hospital in north Gaza.
Patrick has been working for MSF for two years, ensuring that patients in need of essential medical care in Cross River get to hospital in time. Cross river is a region in southern Nigeria where, in areas such as Akor and Old Ndebeji, access to medical care has always been difficult.
