Doctors Without Borders Mobilises Response in Ukraine and nearby countries

As hundreds of thousands of people in Ukraine are forced to escape the escalating conflict, Doctors Without Borders (MSF) is setting up emergency response activities in the country. We are also sending teams to Poland, Moldova, Hungary, Romania, and Slovakia to assess the needs of people crossing borders and respond to humanitarian needs. Our teams are also present in Belarus and Russia, ready to provide humanitarian assistance.

In Ukraine, our teams have distributed kits to treat war-wounded people in Mariupol. We have also provided telemedicine training for trauma care for 30 surgeons from eastern Ukraine.

Our emergency teams have arrived at the Polish-Ukrainian border. They are currently trying to get essential staff and supplies into Ukraine and set up emergency response activities across both sides of the border.  Teams will also carry out assessments along Ukraine’s border with Russia and Belarus.

With active fighting ongoing, determining the true extent of medical needs in Ukraine remains challenging. Our teams are preparing for a range of scenarios, which will allow us to step up our response.

Today, we share with you an update on how we’re providing humanitarian assistance to those affected by the conflict.

 

We also share the following:

 

  • PHOTOGRAPHS (from the Polish-Ukrainian border, though please bear in mind that these photos do not reflect MSF activities)
  • INTERVIEWS*

*Note: though MSF operations have yet to start, therefore, our spokespeople might be limited in what they are able to talk about regarding the conflict.

 

FOR MORE INFORMATION, Please Contact:

Suadha Gelle Muhumed, 

Press Officer, 

MSF Eastern AFrica 

Email: suadha.gelle@nairobi.msf.org 

Phone: +254 115 149 809

 

View of the temporary accommodation site in Korczowa, southeastern Poland, for people who fled Ukraine because of the conflict. The head of the United Nations refugee agency says more than a half a million people had fled Ukraine since the conflict started. Photographer: MSF
View of reception center at crossing point in the town of Hrebenne, Poland, which lies on the border between Lublin (Poland) and Lviv (Ukraine). The head of the United Nations refugee agency says more than a half a million people had fled Ukraine since the conflict started. Photographer: MSF

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About MSF Eastern Africa

Médecins Sans Frontières/Doctors Without Borders (MSF) is an international, independent, medical humanitarian organisation that delivers emergency aid to people affected by armed conflict, epidemics, natural disasters and exclusion from healthcare. MSF offers assistance to people based on need, irrespective of race, religion, gender or political affiliation.

MSF has some of its largest medical projects across East Africa including in South Sudan, Kenya, Tanzania, Uganda, Ethiopia, Somalia and Burundi. In these countries, MSF runs hospitals, health centres and mobile clinics, and launches emergency projects as spikes in healthcare needs arise.   
 
MSF also has a regional office in Kenya, which supports our medical programmes in the country and those surrounding it, recruits staff to help run our operations around the world and raises awareness of humanitarian crises that we are responding to. 

Contact

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+254 708 724549

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