Posts in Pakistan

The
floods that hit Pakistan in 2010 affected around 14 million people.

Pakistan 2010 © Seb Geo

Severe flooding in Pakistan has affected millions of people, with the southeastern province of Sindh particularly badly hit.

A child is screened for malnutrition in Pakistan after the flooding.

Monsoon rains and floods continue to ravage southern Pakistan, leaving tens of thousands of people displaced and vulnerable in Sindh province....

Two children stand outside their temporary home in Sindh province, Pakistan

Médecins Sans Frontières/Doctors Without Borders (MSF) Condemns Use of Medical Aid for Military Objectives; Reported Ruse Risks Damaging...

Pakistan 2010© Ton Koene

A suicide attack left 36 people dead and approximately 60 wounded near a police station in the city of Hangu in northeast Pakistan, just a few...

Country Year © Author/MSF

It has been six months since devastating floods swept through Pakistan in late July 2010, inundating large swathes of the country and causing...

Country Year © Author/MSF

Presently the most severely flood affected areas are in central Sindh Province where the overflowing Manchar Lake has submerged vast areas with a...

Pakistan 2010  © Ton Koene/ MSF

Date published 5 August

Currently, the most common diseases seen in MSF clinics are linked to difficult living conditions and lack of water. According to Dr.

A Northern Ireland doctor who has spent three weeks helping with the relief efforts in flood ravaged Pakistan has told of the utter devastation...

Aleem Shah is MSF's deputy Head of Mission in Pakistan. In this letter from the field, he describes the first days of helping people caught up...

In this video clip, Dr. Waheed takes us around MSF's mobile clinic at Charsadda and describes the cases he is dealing with.

Photos taken at MSF's distribution of relief goods at Kamp Khurasan, between Charsadda and Peshawar.  All photos by Ton Koene.

Following on from the story we published three days ago, James Kambaki, MSF's Project Co-ordinator in BAluchsitan, describes the return trip to...

Two weeks after the first floods hit Pakistan the situation is extremely dire for millions of people. MSF is concerned at gaps in the relief...

© Ton Koene.  Dr. Majid treats a patient at Utmanzai mobile clinic

Responding to the floods in Pakistan, a helicopter assessment of areas cut off from aid reminded MSF’s emergency coordinator of the aftermath of...

Pakistan 2009 © Jobi Bieber MSF

Yesterday our photographer, Ton Koene accompanied MSF's teams distributing clean drinking water in Charsadda, Gulabad and Utmanzai, and visited...

© Ton Koene.A boy stands outside his ruined home in Gulabad

As more rains fall, new areas become flooded which greatly hinders the aid effort.  In the interview below, MSF's Project Coordinator in...

Yesterday, MSF teams distributed essential supplies to 500 families who are living in makeshift camps the highway between Charsadda and Peshawar...

MSF’s response is increasing and focusing on providing drinking water, basic relief items and medical care.

Dr Awais Yaqub is a Pakistani doctor and an MSF deputy medical coordinator in Pakistan. He is currently working in Charsadda, one of the districts...

The work being done by MSF teams in Pakistan has increased considerably over the last 48 hours.

More than one million people have so far been affected by floods in Pakistan and more than one thousand are estimated to have died. Flood...

Following an explosion, at midday on July 15th, in Mingora, the main city of Swat district in Khyber Pathkunkhwa province, doctors and medical...

Following an explosion in the Lower Dir district of...

On January 25, MSF teams based in Munda learned that armed military personnel were forcibly evacuating families from both the Munda camp for...

For over four years, MSF has been equipped with inflatable hospitals in which it is possible to rapidly install surgical facilities, intensive...

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Dispatches - Winter 2010

  • New life emerges from the chaos of the floods- Pakistan. 
  • How the man with the green file managed to beat the odds- Myanmar. 
  • War, fires and mud?

At 2am nothing moves on the main street of Timurgara. A dog gives us a curious look as we drive past her puppies on the road.

He's in the recovery room after emergency surgery for multiple stab wounds. In one sense he’s a lucky guy, nothing important has been damaged.

Anaesthesia Tales

Dr. Mark Campbell in Pakistan and Afghanistan

Dr. Mark Campbell is an Anaethetist from Co. Tyrone, currently on his first mission with MSF - an assignment split between Pakistan and Afghanistan.