"If these people had not been rescued there’s no way the rubber boats, the fishing boats, the over-crowded and wholly inappropriate boats they were put out to sea in could have made this journey. It's not acceptable at all."
MSF doctor Erna Rijnierse has been recording an audio diary for BBC Radio 4 from the Phoenix, a search and rescue boat operating in the Mediterranean Sea with MSF and Migrant Offshore Aid Station (
