Médecins Sans Frontières/Doctors Without Borders (MSF) UK and Ireland

🔴 MSF emergency teams reached Jamaica last week to provide medical care and logistical support following the massive destruction that Hurricane Melissa left behind. Emergencies such as this move quickly, so must we. Our logistics team in Brussels mobilised fast and a shipment of vital supplies has reached Jamaica. Right now, our teams on the ground are trucking water to vulnerable communities, providing important supplies such as mosquito nets and supporting health care centres. The news cycle moves on, but the human suffering continues. We need your help so that we never miss a life-saving moment. Donate today: https://msf.me/43R60Sp

🌟 We're so close to £1 million! With Glastonbury Festival and Crowdfunder we've raised over £920,000 – 92% of the way to our £1 million target. But we're not there yet – and time is running out. Right now, our teams in Gaza and Sudan are providing surgical care, supporting mothers through childbirth, and treating people with conflict-related injuries. Every entry to the Glastonbury prize draw will help us provide life-saving medical care. There's less than 2 hours left to enter 👇 https://lnkd.in/eF8SgVfu

🌟 Not long left to enter the Glastonbury Festival prize draw for a chance to win one of the first 25 pairs of tickets to the 2027 festival! By entering, you’ll be helping to support our life-saving medical care for people affected by conflict in Sudan and Gaza. Don’t delay — enter now and you could soon be one of the very first 2027 ticket holders! The draw closes tomorow at noon👇 https://lnkd.in/eF8SgVfu

🔴 In the early hours of Monday morning, 3 November, a 6.3-magnitude earthquake struck northern Afghanistan near Khulm in Samangan Province. Neighbouring Kunduz and Balkh provinces are also affected. MSF teams in Kabul and the affected provinces are in contact with the authorities to see how we can best support in the aftermath. The MSF team in Kunduz Trauma Centre has so far treated 49 people with earthquake-related injuries and is ready should casualty numbers increase. In Mazar-i-Sharif, MSF teams work in the paediatric department of the Regional Hospital. About 200 of injured have arrived there for treatment by the Ministry of Public Health, and they have requested MSF’s support with medical supplies.

🌟 From vaccinating children against malaria in Burundi to delivering water and hygiene kits in earthquake-affected areas in the Philippines, here are some of our favourite photos from MSF projects around the world in October. Cover photo: MSF vehicles drive through landslides and muddy roads to reach isolated communities in the mountains of Hidalgo, Mexico.

🔴 MSF denounces the horrendous mass atrocities and killings, both indiscriminate and ethnically-targeted, that have culminated this week in and around El Fasher, Sudan. We fear that large numbers of people remain in grave danger and are being prevented by the Rapid Support Forces (RSF) and its allies from reaching safer areas like nearby Tawila, where we work. When El Fasher, the capital of North Darfur state, was seized by the RSF on 26 October after 17 months of a suffocating siege and attacks, our teams prepared to respond to a mass influx of displaced and injured people. In recent months, waves of people have fled to Tawila after each major escalation of violence in El Fasher. Over the past five days, just over 5,000 people managed to make their way to Tawila. They describe massacres and speak of people who remain stranded and subjected to torture, kidnappings for ransom, sexual violence, and summary executions in El Fasher, neighboring towns, and along escape routes. “The arrival numbers don’t add up, while accounts of large-scale atrocities are mounting,” said Michel Olivier Lacharité, MSF head of emergencies. “Where are all the missing people who have already survived months of famine and violence in El Fasher?” “Based on what patients tell us, the most likely—albeit frightening—answer is that they are being killed, blocked, and hunted down when trying to flee,” Lacharité said.

✨ Special thanks to everyone who joined us for the opening of our exhibition at the Oxo Gallery on London’s South Bank. It was an honour for our team to hear how moved visitors were by the inspirational stories of patients at MSF’s specialist reconstructive surgery hospital in Amman, Jordan. If you haven’t visited yet, there is still time – the exhibition runs until Sunday, 2 November. We are showing two collections: “Medical Care in Action,” which spotlights MSF patients and staff around the world, and “From the Ashes, I Rose,” a project by Egyptian photographer Rehab Eldalil in collaboration with Cortona On The Move. Rehab worked closely with patients at our Jordan hospital to capture their journeys of healing and resilience. Patients at the hospital come from conflict affected countries across the Middle East to receive specialist reconstructive and rehabilitative care. Come and experience their stories of courage and hope – we can’t wait to welcome you!

🔴 Our medical teams in Tawila, Sudan, are receiving large numbers of injured and malnourished patients who have fled El Fasher. We are screening all children under five for malnutrition. On 28 October, every child screened were malnourished. Arriving patients report having been forced to eat animal feed due to severe food shortages in the city. Many patients are trauma cases with gunshot wounds or injuries from bombings.

🌟There's still time to enter the GLASTONBURY FESTIVAL EVENTS LIMITED prize draw on Crowdfunder for a chance to win one of the first pairs of 2027 tickets. We are incredibly grateful to Glastonbury Festival and supporters for helping us deliver vital medical care for those affected by conflicts in Sudan and Gaza.

🔴 Horror is unfolding in El Fasher People appear to be trapped, with reports of mass killings and other atrocities. We are deeply concerned about the risk of a potential bloodbath, given the history of ethnically targeted violence in El Fasher. We call for the urgent protection of ALL civilians, and for safe escape routes for them.