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Kashmir unrest: Pakistan urges MSF to intervene in the Valley for emergency services
•Pakistan on Friday formally approached medical relief charity Medecins Sans Frontieres (Doctors without Borders) for emergency health services in Kashmir.
If not for us, how many more would die?: An unlikely crew saves migrants in the Mediterranean
•Since February, the boat chartered by medical charity MSF and French NGO SOS Mediterranee has safely delivered some 1,500 migrants to Italian ports.
When protectors turn tormentors: UN finds war crimes, breaches of humanitarian law in Syria and Yemen
Fp Archives •The International Syria Support Group is a misnomer with most members being active participants to the humanitarian catastrophe being unleashed in Syria.
Deadly strike on Doctors Without Borders hospital in Afghanistan due to 'human and technical' errors, says US
Fp Archives •The US airstrike that killed 31 civilians at a hospital in Afghanistan on 3 October resulted from preventable errors by soldiers and airmen who violated rules of engagement and have been removed from duty while awaiting further investigation, military officials said Wednesday.
Obama apologises for Kunduz hospital attack, MSF demands independent probe
Fp Archives •US President Barack Obama on Wednesday apologised to Medecins Sans Frontieres for the deadly bombing of its hospital in Kunduz, Afghanistan, while the medical charity pressed its demand for an international commission to investigate what it calls a war crime.
Obama offers condolences over ‘tragic incident’ as airstrikes kill 19
Fp Archives •An airstrike, probably carried out by US-led coalition forces, killed 19 staff and patients on Saturday, including three children, in a hospital run by Medecins Sans Frontieres (MSF) in the northern Afghan city of Kunduz, the aid group said.
MSF says drug resistant TB on rise, calls for regulation of drug sales
Fp Archives •"It is the patients who suffer the consequences of poor regulation of TB drug formulations in India. An increasing number of our patients are being diagnosed with drug resistant TB (DR-TB)"
Ground report: Unprecedented attacks on medical missions in Syria
Pallavi •Dr Mego Terzian spokesperson for Doctors Without Borders/Médecins Sans Frontières spoke to Firstpost about the humanitarian emergency in Syria and his worries about falling levels of international aid.
Mistrust of aid agencies remains a challenge, says Médecins Sans Frontières chief
Arlene •Médecins Sans Frontières (or Doctors Without Borders) President Dr Unni Krishnan Karunakara explains challenges that face aid agencies globally today.
Doctors suspend work in Libya jails, protest repetitive torture
Fp Archives •Doctors without borders say torture was so rampant in Libya's jails that some detainees were brought for care only to make them fit for further interrogation.