8-3 | During the weekend, MSF has completed several surveys to get a better picture of people’s needs following the worst floods in Pakistan in 80 years. MSF is now expanding activities to include water and sanitation provision, and is also distributing kits containing hygiene products, cooking utensils and other items to fulfil immediate needs.
7-30 | Recent heavy rainfall in Pakistan’s north-western region has directly affected 400,000 people and caused widespread destruction to houses and infrastructure. MSF is currently assessing the situation in order to tailor its response to this emergency.MSF is carrying out exploratory missions in Swat, Lower Dir, Dargai and Peshawar districts to assess the damage and the subsequent needs of the affected populations in these areas.
4-5 | Following an explosion in the Lower Dir district of Pakistan’s North West Frontier Province on Monday, doctors and medical staff from the medical organisation Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF) and Pakistan’s Ministry of Health treated 88 injured people, most of whom were seriously wounded in the blast.
2-17 | Over the last couple of weeks, Médecins Sans Frontières(MSF) conducted a distribution of basic relief items to more than 35,000 people currently displaced inside Kurram Agency, in the Federally Administrated Tribal Area (FATA). Since November 2009, Central Kurram Agency has been the theatre of an intense armed conflict. One of the consequences for the local population has been to flee to safer places, notably to Lower Kurram, where MSF medical teams have been supporting the hospitals of Sadda and of Alizai since 2006.
1-26 | Local authorities must find adequate resources to accommodate this vulnerable population