Médecins Sans Frontières

The head of the World Health Organization (WHO) warned yesterday (Saturday) that the situation in the northern Gaza Strip is “catastrophic”, with “intensive military operations taking place in and around health infrastructure.”

Italy's coastguard said Wednesday it had recovered six bodies after a migrant boat sank this week off the southern coast with more than 60 people reported missing, including many children.

Twelve people were rescued after the sailing boat sank around 120 nautical miles off the coast of Calabria overnight Sunday-Monday, although one of them died after disembarking.

The last operating hospital in western Sudan's El-Fasher has been closed after an attack by paramilitaries trying to seize the key Darfur city, medical charity Doctors Without Borders has said.

War has raged for more than a year between the regular military under army chief Abdel Fattah al-Burhan and the paramilitary Rapid Support Forces led by his former deputy Mohamed Hamdan Daglo.

A sewage worker located a dead fetus via camera while working under a building owned by the Doctors Without Borders organization, police said on Monday.

The Doctors Without Border building is located on Solonos Street 140, in central Athens' Exarchia area, and police have launched an investigation into the matter.

"For all our family members that might not hear this announcement and the measures to be taken, please inform them by giving them a phone call. We must move to a safer place to protect ourselves from the potential rising waters during this cyclone."

In wheelchairs and on stretchers, in ambulances and on train station platforms, they wait. Medical workers pull out ramps and wheel the patients onto the specially equipped train that will carry them westwards, away from the fighting raging in eastern Ukraine.

Medical charity Medicins Sans Frontieres (MSF) has urged Greece to immediately evacuate migrants from overcrowded camps on its islands due to a high risk of the coronavirus spreading swiftly among people living in squalid conditions.

Doctors Without Borders (MSF) announced on Nov. 16 that a 9-month-old baby died in the Moria refugee camp in Greece.

A fire in a severely overcrowded migrant camp in Greece forced hundreds of people into the streets, compounding their plight with more refugees arriving on Greek islands daily in what an aid group called a worsening "nightmare."

Medical NGO Medecins Sans Frontieres said on Monday that it was "outraged" by the deaths of a child and a woman in a fire at the Moria migrant camp on the eastern Aegean island of Lesvos on Sunday that sparked a riot over dire conditions at the facility.