Migrants - Rescue operations in the Meditarranean (ENG)

MSF has three ships patrolling the Mediterranean to rescue migrants. The teams provide them with first aid as many have skin ailments or suffer from dehydration.
There are also numerous pregnant women and people who sustained injuries during their journeys.

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A Month in Focus - July 2015

Migrants - Rescue operations in the Meditarranean (INT)

Migrants - Opération de sauvetage en Méditerranée (FR)

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Unique Identifier Code / URN MSF149658

Date taken / Date Recorded 04/07/2015 12:00 AM

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Commissioning section MSF-FRANCE

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Editor's rating ★★★★★ (C)

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Duration 1m20s

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Additional Information / Shotlist Migrants
According to the United Nations Refugee Agency, 137,000 migrants have crossed the Mediterranean Sea since the beginning of the year.
Some two thousand have died during the crossing. The others have landed in Greece or Italy.
Crowded onto this ramshackle vessel … Eritreans, Somalis and Nigerians… They wanted to get to Europe to escape the violence raging in their countries. They wouldn’t have made it if they’d stayed on their boat.

Migrant (in English with subtitles)
The ship contained about 460 people. It's very, very, crowded. About 300 hundred of us, we were in the bottom around the engine, so the engine was not working well. It’s not possible to cross the Mediterranean sea in this boat.

MSF has three ships patrolling the Mediterranean to rescue migrants. The teams provide them with first aid as many have skin ailments or suffer from dehydration.
There are also numerous pregnant women and people who sustained injuries during their journeys.
By the beginning of July, MSF teams had already rescued over 5,500 people.
But once they’re on dry land, these people, who are desperately seeking a better future, often find that the only prospect open to them is being crowded into already saturated reception centres.

Keywords

Kosovo (in former Yugoslavia)

Medicine

Palestinian Territories