Violence and pushbacks at Italian-French border: People on the move left without shelter or healthcare in Italy

August 8, 2023

Ventimiglia, 4th August, 2023 - Systematically pushed back at the border by French police – often with violence, inhumane treatment as well as arbitrary detention – and left without adequate shelter and with limited access to healthcare in Italy. In...

Shortening distances: providing healthcare to indigenous communities in Venezuela’s Delta Amacuro state

July 18, 2023

Rivers serve as roads and tropical rainforest stretches to the horizon in Delta Amacuro state, a vast area bordering the Atlantic Ocean in northeastern Venezuela. Largely inaccessible, this region is home to a large number of Indigenous communities who face...

Renewed conflict in Khartoum brings new influx of displaced people to Wad Madani

June 14, 2023

Wad Madani/Brussels – Heavy fighting resumed in Sudan’s capital after the end of the most recent ceasefire this week. MSF teams in Wad Madani have seen a worrying increase in the number of people arriving from Khartoum. Around 5,000 people...

Refugees in eastern Chad may become ‘trapped’ and ‘forgotten’ with onset of the rainy season

June 10, 2023

N’djamena, Chad, 9 June 2023 - Thousands of people amassed at Chad’s eastern border in Sila region and other border areas – seeking refuge from a raging conflict in neighbouring Sudan - are at risk of losing access to vital...

Haiti: MSF mobile clinics in Port-au-Prince treat people stranded by violence

May 10, 2023

Diana Manilla (MSF Project Coordinator) briefs the team before starting the mobile clinic activities at the MSF office. ©Alexandre Marcou Vulnerable people in Haiti’s capital of Port-au-Prince are caught in a spiral of ongoing violence and insecurity, living under the...

Chhattisgarh: Providing mobile healthcare in the Indian jungle during COVID-19

September 14, 2020

Irish MSF Project Coordinator Sarah Leahy describes a day working with MSF at a mobile healthcare clinic in Bijapur, India. 'The car comes to a sudden halt. A herd of cattle blocks the road on which our mobile clinic team...

Going the extra mile

October 24, 2016

Name : Designation : What does it take to deliver healthcare to a neglected population in a remote region? Dr Ram Kovelamudi, working with MSF in Bhadrachalam, Telangana, explains. I have worked as a doctor in different settings before. But...