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Press Releases
Syria: 130 Wounded by Missile Strikes in Idlib Governorate
June 05, 2015
BRUSSELS/NEW YORK—Three missiles struck a town in Idlib Governorate, Syria, yesterday afternoon causing mass casualties and carnage, the international medical humanitarian organization Doctors Without Borders/Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF) said today.
A local MSF-supported field hospital received an influx of 130 wounded people. As violence continues unabated in Syria, MSF calls for a massive increase of emergency assistance to Syrian medics working on the front lines.
Press release
MSF Calls on G7 Leaders to Take Concrete Action to Fight Epidemics
June 03, 2015
Berlin, June 3, 2015—The global health system remains unprepared for mass disease epidemics, warned the international medical humanitarian organization Doctors Without Borders/Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF) today, ahead of the G7 summit in Elmau, Germany.
Press release
MSF Responds to Growing Cholera Outbreak in Kenya
June 02, 2015
NAIROBI/NEW YORK—The international medical humanitarian organization Médecins Sans Frontières/Doctors Without Borders (MSF), health authorities, and other partners continue their response to a major cholera outbreak in Kenya that has spread to 10 of the country’s 47 counties. The outbreak, which began in January, has killed 72 people, according to official figures.
Field news
Update: June 2 Helicopter Crash in Nepal
June 03, 2015
On Tuesday, June 2, 2015, a helicopter delivering humanitarian aid crashed in Sindhupalchowk district, Nepal. Doctors Without Borders/Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF) regrets to confirm the death of three of its staff members in this crash. The team was delivering much-needed medical and humanitarian assistance in Sindhupalchowk district when the accident occurred. MSF extends its deepest condolences to the families and friends of our staff, and to those of the pilot of the helicopter, who was also sadly killed.
Field news
MSF Provides Psychological First Aid to Mediterranean Survivors
June 02, 2015
On Sunday, May 31, Doctors Without Borders/Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF) teams provided emergency psychological support to 18 out of 454 migrants at the port of Augusta who had been rescued at sea after trying to cross the Mediterranean from Libya over the weekend. Seventeen of the passengers brought to Augusta had already died before being rescued due to asphyxiation from inhaling gasoline vapor during an engine breakdown. The 18 who received counseling from MSF’s psychological first-aid team were deeply traumatized by the deaths of their friends and family members during the journey.