Japan: MSF Continues to Respond to Chronic Diseases for the Elderly in Evacuation Centers For the past seven days, Doctors Without Borders/Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF) has been providing medical consultations in evacuation centers in Minami Sanriku, where around 10,000 people are housed in 20 locations. Dr. Yoshitaka Nakagawa returned on Saturday night after spending a week in the northeast with teams that hiked into remote communities heavily hit by the earthquake and tsunami. One patient he met was a 70-year-old man suffering chronic renal failure whose condition was deteriorating because he was unable to reach a clinic with hemodialysis machines. More information. Photo: Japan 2011 © Yozo Kawabe/MSF

Japan: MSF Continues to Respond to Chronic Diseases for the Elderly in Evacuation Centers

For the past seven days, Doctors Without Borders/Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF) has been providing medical consultations in evacuation centers in Minami Sanriku, where around 10,000 people are housed in 20 locations.

Dr. Yoshitaka Nakagawa returned on Saturday night after spending a week in the northeast with teams that hiked into remote communities heavily hit by the earthquake and tsunami. One patient he met was a 70-year-old man suffering chronic renal failure whose condition was deteriorating because he was unable to reach a clinic with hemodialysis machines.

More information.

Photo: Japan 2011 © Yozo Kawabe/MSF

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