Citation

Kmietowicz Z. BMJ 2013; 347: f5150.

Copyright

(Copyright © 2013, BMJ Publishing Group)

DOI

10.1136/bmj.f5150

PMID

23950204

Abstract

The medical humanitarian organisation Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF), or Doctors Without Borders, has announced that it has closed all its programmes in Somalia because of attacks on its staff and the unsafe environment in which it has been operating.

The charity, which has worked in Somalia since 1991, said that its withdrawal from the country would leave hundreds of thousands of Somalians without the little medical....

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