Doctors Without Borders India / Médecins Sans Frontières

Doctors Without Borders/Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF) is an independent international humanitarian organisation that delivers emergency medical aid to people affected by armed conflict, epidemics, natural and man-made disasters or exclusion from health care in more than 60 countries.

MSF observes neutrality and impartiality in the name of universal medical ethics and the right to humanitarian assistance and claims full and unhindered freedom in the exercise of its functions.

Every year MSF sends around 3,000 doctors, nurses, logisticians, water-and-sanitation experts, administrators and other professionals to work alongside over 25,000 locally hired staff. Together they run medical projects in more than 60 countries around the world.

In emergencies and their aftermath, MSF provides essential healthcare, rehabilitates and runs hospitals and clinics, performs surgery, tackles epidemics, carries out vaccination campaigns, operates feeding centres for malnourished children and offers psychological support.

When needed, MSF also constructs wells and dispenses clean drinking water and distributes materials like blankets, plastic sheeting and other basic necessities.

Through longer-term programmes, MSF treats patients with infectious diseases such as tuberculosis, sleeping sickness and HIV/AIDS and provides medical and psychological care to marginalised groups such as street children.

MSF has worked in India since 1999. In India, MSF provides medical treatment to thousands of patients in states of Andhra Pradesh, Chhattisgarh, Telangana, Bihar, Delhi, Manipur, Maharashtra, Jammu & Kashmir, West Bengal, Jharkhand, and Uttar Pradesh.

In 1996, MSF received the Indira Gandhi Prize for Peace, Disarmament and Development. In 1999, MSF was awarded the Noble Peace Prize.