1-10 | MSF Issues Review of Emergency Response and Current Gaps in Medical Care, Shelter, Water and Sanitation, and Secondary Health Care Challenges.One year after a devastating earthquake killed an estimated 222,000 people and left 1.5 million people homeless, Haitians continue to endure appalling living conditions amid a nationwide cholera outbreak, despite the largest humanitarian aid deployment in the world, said the international medical humanitarian organisation Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF).
1-7 | Why have at least 2,500 people died of cholera when there are about 12,000 NGOs in the country? The article was first published in The Guardian’s “Comment is Free” sectionBy Dr. Unni Karunakara
7-8 | Six months after the January 12 earthquake in Haiti, the international medical humanitarian organisation Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF) publishes today a report describing the organisation’s largest ever emergency response. The report also describes the dire living conditions of Haitians today and provides an explanation of MSF’s commitment in years to come.
5-27 | For more than a month, Walson and his wife have been keeping watch at the bedside of their five year-old son, Walderson, at the Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF) Saint-Louis Hospital in Port-au- Prince. They take turns at the hospital while caring for their other three children. The family lives in the Delmas 33 neighborhood, in a little tent set up in front of their house, which was badly damaged by the earthquake that hit the island on January 12.