10-13 | Médecins Sans Frontières/Doctors Without Borders (MSF) is horrified by the brutal mass killing of civilians perpetrated by Hamas, and by the massive attacks on Gaza now being pursued by Israel. MSF calls for an immediate cessation to the indiscriminate bloodshed, the establishment of safe spaces and safe passage for people to reach them as a matter of urgency. People must be afforded safe access to essential supplies like food and water and health facilities.
10-12 | First-person account by Léo Can
10-9 | MSF is preparing a medicine and medical consumables donation to hospitals and health facilities in Gaza today (8 Oct).“Health facilities need this equipment because of the many injured patients,” said Ayman Al-Djaroucha, MSF deputy coordinator in Gaza. “Hospitals are overcrowded with injured people, there is a shortage of drugs and consumables and a shortage of fuel for generators.”
9-11 | After an explosion yesterday in a marketplace in Kostiantynivka, in the Donetsk region of Ukraine, Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF) has been responding to urgent medical needs of people injured in the attack. At Kostiantynivka hospital, where MSF supports the Ministry of Health emergency department, 34 patients were admitted, with 15 of these classified as “red cases” requiring immediate lifesaving care.
9-7 | In mid-May this year, Hammanskraal in South Africa’s Gauteng Province became the epicentre of the second biggest cholera outbreak in the country this century, resulting in approximately 900 cases and 34 deaths.Cholera is not endemic to South Africa but according to Doctors Without Borders/Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF) water, sanitation and hygiene expert, Danish Malik, climate change and other pressures are driving increased human mobility, “with the result that the frequency and scale of cholera outbreaks is rising.”