9-22 | Monsoon rains and floods continue to ravage southern Pakistan, leaving tens of thousands of people displaced and vulnerable in Sindh province. In the coming days, an MSF team of 13 will launch mobile clinics in camps for people displaced from their homes in southern Badin district, in the sub-districts of Tando Bago, Dadah and Chabralo.
9-20 | Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF) team, including medical doctors, nurses, logistician, water and sanitation professional, will launch mobile clinic on 20 September in one of the internally displaced people’s camps, in the sub-district of Tando Bago in southern Badin, Pakistan. Distributing safe drinking water to affected communities will also be the focus of MSF activities.
9-16 | Following a bomb blast on 15 September at a funeral in the Jandol area of Lower Dir in Khyber Pakhtunkhwa, Pakistan, dozens of severely injured people have been treated by Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF) teams and existing medical staff in the Timergara District Hospital emergency room.Seven people died before arriving to the hospital. Medical teams carried out emergency surgery and stabilized many patients. Eight people with head injuries and open fractures have been referred to Peshawar for further treatment.
9-12 | With the monsoon season in full swing, the independent medical humanitarian organisation Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF) has been receiving an increasing number of patients with acute watery diarrhoea in different areas of Khyber Pakhtunkhwa province (KPK) as well as in Kurram Agency in the Federally Administrated Tribal Areas (FATA) since July. MSF is reinforcing its teams to respond to the increasing medical needs.
7-14 | MSF condemns use of medical aid for military objectives; reported ruse risks damaging trust critical for health workers and humanitarian aidThe United States government’s alleged misuse of a vaccination campaign in Pakistan for counter-terrorism purposes constitutes a dangerous abuse of medical care, which threatens the trust essential for health agencies and humanitarian aid workers to provide lifesaving medical services, the international medical humanitarian organisation Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF) said today.