Intended for healthcare professionals

News

Another MSF clinic is bombed in Yemen

BMJ 2015; 351 doi: https://doi.org/10.1136/bmj.h6636 (Published 04 December 2015) Cite this as: BMJ 2015;351:h6636
  1. Owen Dyer
  1. 1Montreal

The aid agency Médecins Sans Frontières has reported that an airstrike by the Saudi led coalition has hit one of its clinics in Yemen, in the southern city of Taiz. Nine people were wounded, including two medical staff, and two of the wounded people are in a critical condition.1

The bombing was the second by the Saudi led coalition of an MSF facility in Yemen in a matter of weeks. The organisation’s hospital in the northern city of Saada was hit on 26 October.

It is the fourth air attack on MSF facilities around the world in two difficult months for the agency, which began …

View Full Text

Log in

Log in through your institution

Subscribe

* For online subscription