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Thousands Fleeing Western Mosul with Acute Medical Needs

Tens of thousands of people are fleeing western Mosul, Iraq, amid a military offensive to recapture the area, with many wounded in the crossfire or suffering from other emergency medical needs, the international medical humanitarian organization Doctors Without Borders/Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF) said today. There is a lack of medical resources to treat the high […]

Doctors Without Borders reports:

Tens of thousands of people are fleeing western Mosul, Iraq, amid a military offensive to recapture the area, with many wounded in the crossfire or suffering from other emergency medical needs, the international medical humanitarian organization Doctors Without Borders/Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF) said today.

There is a lack of medical resources to treat the high number of patients in Mosul, and ambulances referring patients outside the city are unable to cope with the number of trauma victims and the long distances needed to transfer patients for further treatment.

MSF medical teams are working in eastern Mosul, in trauma centers and advanced medical posts around the city and in newly established camps for displaced people fleeing Mosul. Teams in and around Mosul have received more than 1,800 patients in need of urgent or lifesaving care in the last two months, 1,500 of whom needed treatment for conflict-related trauma. MSF started providing much-needed maternity services in eastern Mosul in early February, attending 100 births so far.