Medecins Sans Frontieres field workers bring life-saving medical assistance to people in need around the world. Each year MSF sends out more than 4,600 field workers who work with about 27,000 local staff helping populations in need.

 

Médecins Sans Frontières Japan (MSFJ) is an important part of the global MSF organization, committed to delivering independent medical-humanitarian aid to populations in crisis in over 60 countries. MSFJ operates in Japan and the Republic of Korea (Seoul) and has been in existence for over 20 years.

 

Recently Japanese and Korean field workers have been active in Nigeria, Sudan, Uganda, Kenya, Yemen, Pakistan, Georgia, Armenia, Sri Lanka, India, and many other places where people lack even the most basic health care.

 

What We Do

Field staff sent by MSF will join one of the teams conducting various aid programs in the world such as below.

• Provide emergency medical relief to victims of armed conflicts and natural disasters such as floods and earthquakes
• Run emergency feeding centers during famines
• Organise mass vaccination programs to prevent epidemics spreading
• Assist in hospital rehabilitation, train local staff and run health education programs
• Set-up infrastructure for safe drinking water and sanitation
• Distribute food and medical and non-medical supplies to displaced people
• Run mental health programs for civilians who have experienced trauma due to conflict
• Treat TB, malaria, and AIDS and campaign for more affordable and effective medicines for these diseases and neglected diseases such as sleeping sickness and Leishmaniasis
• Speak out and initiate public debate about the suffering and injustice we witness in the field, and advocate on behalf of the populations we serve