DPR denies “Doctors without borders” accreditation because of espionage

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MSF closes medical facility due to Saudi missile attacks in Yemen
https://southfront.org/msf-closes-medical-facility-due-saudi-missile-attacks-yemen/

The MSF said that staffs were afraid to work in the hospital, which was also attacked in January.

Following Saudi airstrikes that hit an area near the only medical facility run by Doctors without Borders (MSF) in the northern Yemeni city of Sa’ada has been closed.

The only medical facility in the Razeh district of Sa’ada was evacuated after two raids struck 20 meters from the hospital on Tuesday, MSF said in messages posted on Twitter.

The MSF said that staffs were afraid to work in the hospital, which was also attacked in January. Back then, 4 people were killed and 10 injured in the strikes.

According to reports, missile strikes have reportedly hit at least three MSF clinics across Yemen.

Yemen’s al-Masirah television network claimed on Thursday that several Saudi forces were killed in a missile attack in a military base in the central province of Ma’rib.

There was a similar attack on the al-Tadaween camp earlier in this week, that attack also claimed several Saudi soldiers’ lives.

According to several media sources, Yemeni forces have fired ballistic missiles frequently at Saudi targets since Riyadh launched military operation against Yemen.

Since March last year, the ongoing Saudi aggression has taken at least 8,300 civilian lives including 2,236 children. Saudi airstrikes have also taken a heavy toll on Yemen’s facilities and infrastructure including hospitals, schools, roads and factories.

 

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‘Disciplined’? Kunduz hospital bombing land ‘mainly administrative’ punishment for 12 US troops
https://www.rt.com/usa/335980-administrative-punishment-kunduz-airstrike/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=RSS

Twelve US military personnel have been issued “administrative punishments” – but no criminal charges – over the bombing of Doctors Without Borders hospital in Kunduz last year, officials revealed to media.

The airstrike by AC-130 gunship took lives of 42, including patients and medical staff.

In October last year, an American AC-130 Spectre gunship had opened fire on the trauma center operated by Doctors Without Borders (MSF) in the city of Kunduz. Preliminary findings done by the charity said the victims – doctors and their patients – were burned to death in their beds, with some others decapitated, shrapnel-wounded or shot from the air while trying to flee.

The gunship made several passes, having fired 211 shells at the compound in 29 minutes before commanders realized the mistake and ordered crew to hold their fire. MSF said their staffers reached NATO HQ in Afghanistan and asked to cease fire immediately, but got zero result.

On Thursday, US officials told AP on condition of anonymity that the “disciplinary process was nearly complete.” It is derived from a military inquiry into the airstrike and “partially redacted” results of it are expected to be made public in coming days.

The punishments are mainly administrative, according to AP. In some cases the actions, such as letters of reprimand, were “tough enough” to hamper further promotion. But those disciplined reportedly were enlisted personnel and officers, none of them generals.

Back in October, General John F. Campbell, who at that time was in charge of the US and NATO forces in Afghanistan said the strike was “a mistake” and argued that American forces would never target any “protected medical facility.”

 

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French charity MSF deploys treatment center in Iran
23 March 2020 - PARIS: Medical charity MSF is setting up a 50-bed emergency center to treat severe COVID-19 cases in Iran, the French organization said.

A team of nine MSF intensive care medics will staff the facility on the grounds of the Amin hospital in the central province of Isfahan, the charity said, as Iran grapples with the worst outbreak of coronavirus in the region.

Iran turns away Medecins Sans Frontieres coronavirus hospital
LONDON: March 24, 2020 - Iran has turned away a major international aid operation to help the country treat coronavirus cases.

Medecins Sans Frontieres (MSF), a global medical charity, had sent a mobile 50-bed hospital and team of medics to Isfahan to help hospital workers there handle the huge volume of cases.

On Tuesday, MSF said it was incomprehensible that Iranian health ministry officials had removed approval for the organization to help manage severe cases after the team nd equipment had already arrived in Tehran.