MSF in the Philippines

Communications Officer
Saturday 23 rd November, I head back to Cebu with the impression that I am abandoning Guiuan. It seems that little by little, the world’s media is...
Logistician
My two weeks in the Philippines began with two days of exploring. We hired a very small helicopter, which enabled us to land almost anywhere. We flew...
Logistician
One of my first priorities here in Ormoc was to find a warehouse to store our medicine, watsan [water and sanitation] equipment and items for...
Emergency Coordinator
Yann is in the Philippines, coordinating MSF's emergency response to the devastation caused by Typhoon Haiyan... These two weeks in Tacloban felt...
Epidemiologist
I’ve joined one of our mobile medical teams today. It’s made up of a doctor and four nurses. We’re heading up into the western peninsula of the...
Typhoon Haiyan struck the Philippines on November 8, 2013, killing more than 5,000 people and displacing more than four million, wiping out homes, hospitals, and infrastructure.
Doctors Without Borders/Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF) has been providing medical and mental health care, focusing on the most remote parts of the country, for the last three months in inflatable and tented hospitals and through mobile clinics, reaching isolated communities by air, land, and sea.
Find out more about our work in the Philippines here.