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Pakistan: Delivering in the Dark
The next video in MSF’s International Women’s Day series takes us to MSF’s birthing unit in Kuchlak, in Pakistan’s Balochistan Province, to which women travel long distances for crucial care they’d otherwise go without.
Karachi, Pakistan has one of Asia’s largest slum populations. Fifty percent of the city’s inhabitants live in cramped, unhygienic conditions with poor access to water and medical care. Such conditions are a breeding ground for the spread of infectious diseases that are otherwise easily preventable.
Urban Survivors is a multimedia project by Doctors Without Borders/ Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF) in collaboration with the NOOR photo agency and Darjeeling Productions, highlighting the critical humanitarian and medical needs that exist in slums the world over.
Photo: © Alixandra Fazzina/NOOR
Though the security situation in Hangu, Pakistan remains tense, Médecins Sans Frontières/Doctors Without Borders (MSF) continues to work inside the Hangu Tehsil Headquarters (THQ) hospital, where it has been since May 2010.
In 2011, MSF provided medical care to more than 20,088 patients in the emergency room and conducted 955 emergency surgeries in the hospital’s operating theater. Throughout 2011, the MSF medical team also referred more than 452 patients to Peshawar for specialized surgical and medical care. From July to October—the rainy season—MSF treated 1,526 patients with acute watery diarrhea. In light of the area’s ongoing medical needs, MSF will continue to provide free emergency medical care in 2012.
Photo: Pakistan 2011 © P.K. Lee/MSF
In Somalia, Maryan walked ten miles with her malnourished child on her back to get lifesaving emergency care. Two-year-old Deng was brought to a Doctors Without Borders/Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF) hospital in South Sudan where he was treated for kala azar – a deadly tropical disease. Sanna was pregnant when the floods in Pakistan hit and left her without clean water or food.
Together, Doctors Without Borders and our donors provided these women and children and many thousands of people like them with the emergency medical care they needed to survive. But as we head into 2012, your support is critical as we prepare to respond to the medical needs of people facing natural disasters, deadly diseases and conflict.
Standing there, you could see a partially submerged school and mosque, along with the other buildings in the village. It was complete devastation.
Dr. James Kambaki, MSF project coordinator, on the scene in Pakistan after massive floods hit
Karachi, Pakistan has one of Asia’s largest slum populations. Fifty percent of the city’s inhabitants live in cramped, unhygienic conditions with poor access to water and medical care. Such conditions are a breeding ground for the spread of infectious diseases that are otherwise easily preventable.
Urban Survivors is a multimedia project by Doctors Without Borders/ Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF) in collaboration with the NOOR photo agency and Darjeeling Productions, highlighting the critical humanitarian and medical needs that exist in slums the world over.
Photo: © Alixandra Fazzina/NOOR
The floods that first struck Pakistan in July 2010 devastated villages and communities across the country. Some 100,000 people fled to Karachi, the country’s largest and richest city, though one with an already enormous slum population. The people who arrived in Karachi between July and October 2010 received help from community-based organisations and authorities who responded quickly to the floods. However, after October, little assistance was available to people who were trying to survive. Those sorely in need of basic necessities like clean water and medicine were left largely to fend for themselves.
Urban Survivors is a multimedia project by Doctors Without Borders/ Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF) in collaboration with the NOOR photo agency and Darjeeling Productions, highlighting the critical humanitarian and medical needs that exist in slums the world over.
Photo: © Alixandra Fazzina/NOOR
Pakistan: Providing Care for Flood-Displaced Families in Sindh
Severe flooding in Pakistan has affected millions of people, hitting Sindh Province, in the southern part of the country, particularly hard. After weeks of torrential monsoon rains, canals burst their banks, flooding villages and leaving tens of thousands of families homeless for the past two months. Read more
Photo: Pakistan 2011 © P.K. Lee/MSF
MSF Teams Treat Wounded in Pakistan Blast
Following a bomb blast Sept. 15 at a funeral in the Jandol area of Lower Dir in Khyber Pakhtunkhwa, Pakistan, dozens of severely injured people have been treated by Doctors Without Borders Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF) teams and medical staff in the Timergara District Hospital emergency room.
Seven people died before arriving to the hospital. Medical teams carried out emergency surgery and stabilized many patients. Eight people with head injuries and open fractures have been referred to Peshawar for further treatment.
These children were living in displacement camp set up in a schoolhouse in the Charsadda district of Pakistan’s Khyber Pakhtunkhwa Province in 2009. MSF worked in the camp, assisting people who had fled fighting in Baujaur Agency, to the north. (Photo: 2009 © Eymeric Laurent-Gascoin/MSF)
With all populations in crisis, it is challenging enough for health agencies and humanitarian aid workers to gain access to, and the trust of, communities—especially populations already skeptical of the motives of any outside assistance.
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Photo: Pakistan 2005 © Ton Koene/MSF
Pakistan: As Fighting Intensifies, MSF Increases Support in Kurram Agency
This past week, Pakistan’s armed forces began a large-scale military operation in the Kurram Agency in the Federally Administered Tribal Areas (FATA). MSF has subsequently witnessed an increase in the number of consultations in the pediatric ward of Sadda hospital. This is mostly due to an influx of people who were displaced by the conflict.
Read more.
Pakistan: MSF Treats 58 Victims Of Suicide Attack In Hangu
On May 26, a suicide attack killed 36 people and wounded approximately 60 more near a police station in the city of Hangu in northwestern Pakistan, just a few blocks from the hospital where Doctors Without Borders/Médecins Sans Frontierès (MSF) teams staff the emergency and surgery departments. Working with the hospital’s teams, MSF treated 58 victims.
Photo: Pakistan 2011 © Pierre Boyer/ MSF
Pakistan has one of the highest rates of maternal and infant mortality in Central Asia. It is a particular problem in embattled Khyber Pakhtunkhwa Province, where access to medical care of any kind is limited and insecurity makes it even harder to reach treatment when needed.
As so often happens, the toll of a situation like this falls heavily on women and children. After evaluating obstetric and gynecological needs in and around Khyber Pakhtunkhwa’s main city, Peshawar, MSF decided to build a 30-bed reference hospital that is dedicated solely to women and is furnished with a labor and delivery room and an operating room.
Photo: Pakistan 2010 © Ton Koene
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