6-22 | Fuel shortages are causing widespread disruption to everyday services, especially lifesaving medical activities in northern Syria, says Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF). Many health structures in Hama and Idlib have been forced to close or to drastically cut their activities due to a lack of fuel for their electricity generators and transport. With supply routes for fuel cut in recent days due to fighting between armed groups in parts of northern Syria, diesel has been difficult to obtain since 14th June, and prices have increased by up to 500%.
6-18 | There has been a sharp increase this year in the number of people arriving in Greece and especially on the Dodecanese islands, fleeing war, violence and poverty in their home countries. Since the beginning of this year, more than 46,000 refugees have arrived in the Greek islands by sea from Turkey in inflatable dinghies. More than 14,000 refugees have arrived in the Dodecanese islands. Since March 2015, MSF has been working on the island of Kos to provide care to newly arrived migrants and refugees.
6-17 | On Monday 15 June, at least one person died during a search and rescue operation by the Bourbon Argos, a ship chartered by Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF) to carry out search and rescue operations in the Mediterranean sea. People who were rescued reported that another two people had drowned but their deaths could not be confirmed. The tragic accident stemmed from panic breaking out among the passengers as the small rubber boat they were traveling in started to sink as they were about to embark onto the Bourbon Argos.
6-11 | More than 100 injured, including women and children, were received by MSF in Aden yesterday as a result of heavy shelling on the Al-Basateen residential area in the city. Since 19th March, MSF has received more than 2,500 injured in Yemen; with more than 1,800 of them in Aden alone.
6-5 | An MSF-supported hospital director describes horror of a mass-casualty influx in northwestern Syria In the afternoon of 04 June 2015, a horrific missile strike devastated a town centre in Idlib Governorate, Syria. The wounded arrived in wave after wave at a nearby small makeshift hospital that is supported by Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF). MSF immediately started organizing a major resupply of essentials for the hospital.