Medecins Sans Frontieres (MSF), or Doctors without Borders, is an independent medical humanitarian movement that was established in 1971. Today, it is working in nearly 70 countries around the world, delivering emergency care to people affected by conflict and violence, epidemics and disease, healthcare exclusion and natural disasters. Its aid ranges from offering measles and meningitis treatment programmes, to major surgical intervention
It is estimated that nearly 92 per cent of the MSF’ programmes are covered by 5.7 million donors globally.
“A lot of people are supporting MSF in general, and people are not usually targeting their fund to a specific programme,” said Matehilde Berthelot, MSF’s operational desk manager.
In the Arab region, it has programmes in six Arab countries — Syria, Iraq, Yemen, Lebanon, Jordan and the Palestinian territories.
MSF runs five burn and trauma centress in the Palestinian territories: one in Gaza strip, and four in the western bank cities of Hebron, Nablus, occupied East Jerusalem and Qalqilya. In 2015, the Centres treated nearly 2,500 people, most of them are children, from accidents resulting from conflict-damaged homes.
