Doctors Without Borders Seeks Donations for Holidays

From Doctors Without Borders:

NEW YORK, NY - Each holiday season, thousands of MSF field workers will volunteer their time to help those affected by crises in nearly 70 countries around the world. This year our teams onboard three ships in the central Mediterranean Sea have rescued over 17,000 people; in Haiti they have conducted medical consultations with more than 2,500 patients in 27 villages and communities; in Tanzania, MSF is working in three refugee camps, where almost 140,000 refugees are residing after fleeing violence in their home country; and MSF continues to remotely support the eight remaining health facilities in east Aleppo, where 270,000 people are living under siege.

$10 Can purchase a face mask to help resuscitate a newborn in an emergency.

$25 Can purchase a month of lifesaving therapeutic food to treat a severely malnourished child.

$35 Can purchase two Suture Sets containing essential surgical instruments for emergency wound repair in the field.

$35 Can purchase lifesaving treatment for 33 young children suffering from malaria.

$35 Can purchase enough of the new, more effective meningitis vaccine to immunize 42 people against this killer disease.

$35 Can purchase 26 obstetrical stethoscopes for monitoring fetal heartbeats.

$40 Can purchase new rapid tests to check two people for drug-resistant tuberculosis, cutting diagnosis time from 42 days to two hours.

$50 Can purchase chlorination equipment to provide 690 people with clean drinking water for one week in an emergency.

$75 Can purchase four Suture Sets containing essential surgical instruments for emergency wound repair in the field.

$75 Can purchase enough vaccine to immunize 227 children against measles during a deadly outbreak.

$100 Can purchase lifesaving therapeutic food to treat four children suffering from severe malnutrition.

E-card donations can be made at donate.doctorswithoutborders.org or by calling 212-679-6800).

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