MSF in Asia
MSF's regional communication officers for Asia, based in Bangkok, cover India, Bangladesh, Myanmar, Thailand, Cambodia and Indonesia.
Nargis: A window to a wider health crisis
Author: MSF in Asia
This blog is written by Jean-Sebastien Matte and Joe Belliveau, Operations Managers, Médecins Sans Frontières
One year ago, the global spotlight fell on Myanmar as Cyclone Nargis struck leaving 140,000 people dead or missing and many more destitute. Even though critics rightly condemned the late and inadequate emergency response, many today silently overlook the harsh reality of the wider health crisis throughout the country. Every year, tens of thousands of people in Myanmar are dying from treatable diseases because of an extreme lack of basic medical care due to government inaction and international reluctance to engage in humanitarian assistance.
Médecins Sans Frontieres (MSF) reacted immediately to Nargis, bringing medical care, food and other essential items to survivors within 48 hours. But like other aid agencies, our efforts were hampered in those critical first days as foreign emergency specialists were denied access to the affected Delta area. The international community was rightly outraged, and some predicted many more deaths in the absence of immediate large-scale assistance.
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Author: MSF in Asia
This blog is written by Jean-Sebastien Matte and Joe Belliveau, Operations Managers, Médecins Sans Frontières
One year ago, the global spotlight fell on Myanmar as Cyclone Nargis struck leaving 140,000 people dead or missing and many more destitute. Even though critics rightly condemned the late and inadequate emergency response, many today silently overlook the harsh reality of the wider health crisis throughout the country. Every year, tens of thousands of people in Myanmar are dying from treatable diseases because of an extreme lack of basic medical care due to government inaction and international reluctance to engage in humanitarian assistance.
Médecins Sans Frontieres (MSF) reacted immediately to Nargis, bringing medical care, food and other essential items to survivors within 48 hours. But like other aid agencies, our efforts were hampered in those critical first days as foreign emergency specialists were denied access to the affected Delta area. The international community was rightly outraged, and some predicted many more deaths in the absence of immediate large-scale assistance.
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All hospitals are really struggling - MSF doctor in Sri Lanka
Author: MSF in Asia
This blog is by Paul McMaster, a surgeon working with Medecins Sans Frontieres at Vavuniya hospital in northern Sri Lanka which is treating civilians from the conflict zone.
Medical staff are still working round the clock and the situation is changing day to day.
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Author: MSF in Asia
This blog is by Paul McMaster, a surgeon working with Medecins Sans Frontieres at Vavuniya hospital in northern Sri Lanka which is treating civilians from the conflict zone.
Medical staff are still working round the clock and the situation is changing day to day.
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It has been bedlam here - MSF doctor in Sri Lanka
Author: MSF in Asia
This blog is by Paul McMaster, a surgeon working with Medecins Sans Frontieres at Vavuniya hospital in northern Sri Lanka which is treating civilians from the conflict zone.
Our Medecins Sans Frontieres team in Vavuniya is very small at the moment.
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Author: MSF in Asia
This blog is by Paul McMaster, a surgeon working with Medecins Sans Frontieres at Vavuniya hospital in northern Sri Lanka which is treating civilians from the conflict zone.
Our Medecins Sans Frontieres team in Vavuniya is very small at the moment.
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The challenges of treating TB in Myanmar - MSF
Author: MSF in Asia
Kyi Kyi Win* holds her four-year-old daughter and sits quietly on the floor of her modest house in Dawei, southern Myanmar. Every month, she receives a visit from Min Min Oo, a health worker with the international medical organisation Medecins Sans Frontieres (MSF), who comes to check that she takes her TB treatment properly. "It all started with pain in my stomach. Soon I couldn't eat or drink, I lost a lot of weight and became very weak," Kyi Kyi Win remembers. But despite her rapidly deteriorating health, it took nearly a month before the 29-year-old mother was diagnosed with TB and began treatment. ...
Author: MSF in Asia
Kyi Kyi Win* holds her four-year-old daughter and sits quietly on the floor of her modest house in Dawei, southern Myanmar. Every month, she receives a visit from Min Min Oo, a health worker with the international medical organisation Medecins Sans Frontieres (MSF), who comes to check that she takes her TB treatment properly. "It all started with pain in my stomach. Soon I couldn't eat or drink, I lost a lot of weight and became very weak," Kyi Kyi Win remembers. But despite her rapidly deteriorating health, it took nearly a month before the 29-year-old mother was diagnosed with TB and began treatment. ...
Myanmar's Rohingya: A chronic humanitarian crisis
Author: MSF in Asia
By Gabriela Popescu - MSF Medical Coordinator
The scandal over Thailand's treatment of the Rohingya, washed up in Indonesia and on the Andaman Islands after being set adrift by the Thai military forces has finally brought the plight of these people in the headlines. Seeing so much press coverage has filled me with both a competing sense of promise and frustration.
Promise because finally their desperate situation is gaining public recognition. For decades these people have fled the hardships they face in Myanmar, only to suffer horrible living conditions and a lack of official recognition as refugees in Bangladesh and elsewhere. And frustration because of the atrocities that people continue to suffer and because the situation is not always understood for what it clearly is - a chronic humanitarian crisis - with its roots firmly in Myanmar.
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Next entries
Author: MSF in Asia
By Gabriela Popescu - MSF Medical Coordinator
The scandal over Thailand's treatment of the Rohingya, washed up in Indonesia and on the Andaman Islands after being set adrift by the Thai military forces has finally brought the plight of these people in the headlines. Seeing so much press coverage has filled me with both a competing sense of promise and frustration.
Promise because finally their desperate situation is gaining public recognition. For decades these people have fled the hardships they face in Myanmar, only to suffer horrible living conditions and a lack of official recognition as refugees in Bangladesh and elsewhere. And frustration because of the atrocities that people continue to suffer and because the situation is not always understood for what it clearly is - a chronic humanitarian crisis - with its roots firmly in Myanmar.
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