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All news2/9/2021
No fridge, no problem, to store insulin for people with diabetes
MSF study shows some insulin can be stored at warmer temperatures. Good news for people with diabetes in places where refrigeration can be a luxury.
“If seriously ill people can’t get to hospital, you can imagine the consequences”
Albert Viñas has been involved in almost 50 emergency responses with Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF) over 20 years. He has just returned from Ethiopia, where his role was to prepare for medical teams to access areas of eastern and central Tigray and assist people affected by the current crisis. Since violence broke out in this northern Ethiopian region in early November 2020, some 60,000 people have taken refuge in Sudan and hundreds of thousands have been displaced within Tigray. He describes what he found.
Press releases2/4/2021
MSF urges wealthy countries not to block COVID-19 patent waiver
Ahead of the next round of talks at the World Trade Organization (WTO) to discuss a proposal by South Africa and India to waive monopolies on COVID-19 medical tools during the pandemic, MSF called on the wealthy countries opposing the proposal not to block it and ruin its lifesaving potential for billions of people in the rest of the world.
“All I want is to be able to live decently”
A growing number of Lebanese people have been knocking on MSF clinics’ doors over the past year, unable to cover their medical fees anymore - particularly in remote areas. In our clinic in Hermel, in the northern part of the Bekaa Valley, the number of Lebanese patients with non-communicable diseases requesting our services more than doubled between 2019 and 2020.
Malawi is overwhelmed by second wave of COVID-19
After being relatively spared by the COVID-19 pandemic in 2020, Malawi is now being swept by a new, fast-spreading wave of the disease that is quickly overwhelming the healthcare system. In the first few weeks of January 2021, the number of people confirmed with the disease has doubled every four to five days, and while the local capacity is already saturated, access to vaccines is likely a few months away. MSF responded to a call by the health authorities in Blantyre, and launched emergency activities to tackle the exponential increase in the number of severe patients in the area.
“At the end of the month, there’s no money left for medicine”
Read the story of Ahmed, a Syrian refugee who lives with his family in an informal tented settlement in the outskirts of Arsal, in the Bekaa Valley.
COVID-19 leaves Amazonas health system saturated, overloaded and struggling
The health system in Manaus, the capital of Amazonas state, in northwestern Brazil, has collapsed for the second time. Although hospitals have been adding COVID-19 bed capacity at an astonishing rate, the numbers of new patients with the coronavirus have continued to grow even faster, meaning the entire health system is saturated and overloaded.
Displaced people in Bouar living amid fear and growing needs
People in the town of Bouar, in western Central African Republic (CAR), have been living in fear since the end of December, when the town became one of the theatres for the latest cycle of violence in the country. A coalition of armed groups and the government, supported by its international allies, are clashing.