AUGUST 22, 2019—Luca Pigozzi, a medical doctor with Doctors Without Borders/Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF) on the search and rescue ship, the Ocean Viking, in the central Mediterranean, gave the following statement today:
"It's been now 13 days that 356 vulnerable people are stranded onboard the Ocean Viking. Every day we see the situation deteriorate. There are people on board with medical conditions that could turn critical in an instant and could require an evacuation.