MSF Team in Libya Trying to Reach Areas Affected by Violence

February 24, 2011

A six-person Doctors Without Borders/Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF) team has crossed the border from Egypt into eastern Libya with a truckload of medicines and medical materials. The team is now travelling to areas where medical facilities have reported many wounded people as a result of violent confrontations. A second truck with medical supplies, including surgical materials, is en route to the border.

MSF is extremely worried about the situation and its staff are working tirelessly to reach areas of Libya where large numbers of people are affected by the violence.

For now, insecurity makes it impossible to bring urgently needed humanitarian aid to Tripoli, Libya’s capital city.

A two-person MSF team at the Tunisian-Libyan border has so far been blocked from entering Libya.

 

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