MSF in the Philippines

Emergency CoordinatorDoctor
MSF has been doing medical consultations in the ruined town of Guiuan for the past four days. Six hundred patients came on the first day, and...
Emergency Coordinator
The MSF team in Tacloban, which, as of this morning, had 21 international staff members, has been occupying the three top floors of a downtown hotel...
Emergency Coordinator
It's early morning. The team criss-cross the town looking for a place to install our inflatable hospital. In the end, the Bethany hospital is our...
Communications Officer
Friday 15 November: I have joined an MSF team in Guiuan, a small town of some 50,000 inhabitants on the south-east coast of Samar, the first place...
Emergency Coordinator
On Thursday the first MSF advance team finally reached Tacloban. The three preceding days spent waiting in Cebu were very frustrating. Each morning...
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.