The healing touch

October 11, 2022

MSF has been working in Bihar since 2007. Our activities have seen a gradual transition to focus on people living with advanced HIV and life-threatening opportunistic infections at Guru Gobind Singh Hospital in Patna, Bihar. For the unversed, patients with...

Bihar: “Corona, corona, give our ball back!”

August 18, 2020

Challenges, fears and stigma of working on the frontline of COVID-19 in India. A blog by Smriti Singh* The COVID-19 pandemic has posed a unique challenge before frontline workers — it is to strike a balance between helping patients cope...

Bihar: Providing mental healthcare for COVID-19 patients

August 10, 2020

Medical teams at MSF's COVID-19 treatment centre in Bihar experience various challenges during the process of providing care to patients everyday. Doctors and nurses have to constantly fight not just the disease but also fear, stigma and misinformation related to...

India: On the frontline against COVID-19

August 7, 2020

In mid-June, Médecins Sans Frontières/Doctors Without Borders (MSF) opened a 100-bed COVID-19 treatment centre in Patna, the capital of Bihar state in northeast India. As coronavirus cases continue to surge across the country (1,6 million cases as of 31 July),...

Bihar: To the one fighting against all odds

July 10, 2020

Currently working in Bihar at a COVID-19 treatment centre, Dr Nimrat Kaur, Regional Deputy Project Coordinator - Asia at Medecins Sans Frontieres, also known as Doctors Without Borders, has been treating patients under harsh, often unhygienic and overcrowded conditions, where...

Responding to COVID-19 pandemic in Bihar

June 22, 2020

Working with the Bihar government, in June 2020 MSF opened a 100-bed temporary hospital for COVID-19 patients at Patliputra sports complex in Patna, the first of its kind to be fully managed by MSF in India. Initially, our teams provided medical...

बिहार: डॉक्टर्स विदाउट बॉर्डर्स ने भारत में अस्थायी 100- बिस्तर वाला कोविड -19 उपचार केंद्र खोला

June 19, 2020

पटना : भारत में Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF) / डॉक्टर्स विदाउट बॉर्डर्स ने बिहार सरकार के सहयोग के साथ कोविड -19 महामारी के रोगियों का इलाज करने के लिए 100 बिस्तर वाला अस्थायी अस्पताल, पटना के पाटलिपुत्र खेल परिसर में स्थापित...

Bihar: Doctors Without Borders opens temporary 100-bed COVID-19 treatment center in India

June 19, 2020

Patna, Bihar: Doctors Without Borders/Médecins Sans Frontières(MSF) in collaboration with the Bihar government, opened a 100-bed temporary hospital for COVID-19 patients at the Patliputra Sports complex in Patna. This COVID -19 treatment centre, the first-of-its-kind to be fully managed by...

Bihar: MSF to set up COVID-19 treatment facility in Patna

May 25, 2020

To fight the ongoing COVID-19 pandemic, Doctors Without Borders/Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF) will soon launch its response to coronavirus in Patna, Bihar. The teams are working to set up a 100-bed COVID-19 treatment facility in the indoor stadium of Patliputra...

India: MSF to support Bihar’s COVID-19 response by providing personal protective equipment (PPE)

April 6, 2020

New Delhi, India: As the number of people with COVID-19 continues to rise across India, Médecins Sans Frontières/Doctors Without Borders (MSF) is supporting the Bihar State Government by providing crucially needed personal protective equipment for frontline healthcare workers. This includes N-95...

Bihar: Meeting medical care needs of people with advanced HIV

January 24, 2020

On 25 January 2019, MSF inaugurated Garima Ki Kiran clinic in Bihar with a purpose to reduce the number of deaths among patients with advanced HIV by increasing their access to care for life-threatening infections. On the completion of clinic's...

Video: Explaining kala azar-HIV coinfection

November 25, 2018

Kala azar or visceral leishmaniasis a neglected tropical disease and the second-largest parasitic killer in the world. India accounts for over 30% of the total kala azar cases in the world. 80% of these cases occur in Bihar. Since 2007,...