Countries where MSF work

Careful look at some of the countries where MSF work

Haiti

Even before the 2010 earthquake MSF was in Haiti trying to help people with their medical needs and help better their health programs. After the earthquake MSF opened a container hospital to treat people after the disaster, hospital which is still opened today. MSF has a unit that takes care of road accidents and patients with burns. They also have a unit that treats pregnant woman and have a section that treats pregnant woman that have cholera which is a deadly disease if it's not treated. MSF is always trying to prevent major cholera outbreaks to prevent the loss of so many lives.

Building new hospitals in Haiti

MSF rescuing immigrants

Italy

MSF helps immigrants and refugees in different parts of Italy. Recently they had to close down activities in Pozzallo Italy because of the conditions the patients were in. The way that these immigrants come to the hospital and show how they got treated was too extreme, MSF told authority that this had to change and nothing changed. The hospital was taking more people than its capacity and it was too much at once so MSF had to shut down the hospital. MSF did start operations in the Mediterranean sea to help these poor immigrants in May of 2015.

                                                         Italy's Immigrant Living Conditions

Chile

In 2010 when an earthquake with a magnitude of 8.8 hit Chile MSF was ready to start helping these people. MSF had doctors, nurses and logisticians on the ground to help them soon after the earthquake took place. People were sleeping in the streets because they were scared of sleeping inside do the aftershocks. MSF had psychologists to provide help for them. MSF staff also have to be ready to evacuate buildings for after chocks also.

More information on earthquake

Kenya

The organization has worked with Kenya since 1987, helping treat HIV/AIDS, TB, maternity care, and giving assistance in the refugee camps.

Outpatient consultations	333,400
Patients on first-line ARV treatment	10,500
Patients treated after incidents of sexual violence	2,800
No. staff in 2014	603
2014 Expenditure	€17.4 million

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MSF has helped many other countries with different medical problems, such as war related, natural disasters etc. These were just a few so you could understand how MSF works in different areas when it comes to giving these people medical help. For a longer list and being able to browse any country MSF is stationed that you would like to know more about click here.


Lidia Garcia