9-11 | Makeshift hospitals supported by medical emergency organisation Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF) have reported a series of extreme mass-casualty influxes resulting from 20 consecutive days of intense bombing attacks in August on markets and civilian buildings in the besieged communities of East Ghouta, near the Syrian capital. At least 150 patients per day have been treated for war wounds during this period.
9-11 | 10 September saw the immediate closure of the Captain Elias camp on Kos island, a makeshift building where authorities have been directing refugees to stay while awaiting their registration papers.
9-8 | Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF) has officially opened its newly upgraded reconstructive surgery hospital in Amman, Jordan. The hospital serves war wounded patients from across the region who have no access to specialized surgical care in their home countries.
9-3 | The MSF boats Dignity I and Bourbon Argos together with the MY Phoenix, operated jointly with MOAS, yesterday rescued 1,658 people in MSF’s biggest day of operations on the Mediterranean Sea since operations began on 2 May.
9-1 | In order to increase Tunisian fishermen’s capacity to carry out rescues at sea, MSF has carried out a six-day training with 116 local fishermen in the town of Zarzis. MSF is also carrying out trainings for the Tunisian and Libyan Red Crescents, the Tunisian Civil Protection service and the Tunisian National Guard in dead body management and how to receive people who are rescued and brought to shore. On 27 August, 200 people drowned when a wooden boat capsized off the coast of Zuwara, Libya.