doctorswithoutborders: FARDC soldiers patrolling South Kivu in September 2009; members of the same force raided an MSF-supported hospital in the province on March 11. photo: Democratic Republic of Congo 2009 © Moises Saman PRESS RELEASE MSF Demands That All Parties to the Conflict Respect Medical Structures. Bukavu, DRC/New York, March 17, 2010 —The international medical humanitarian organization Doctors Without Borders/Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF) today deplored a serious incident that occurred in the isolated village of Katanga in the Hauts Plateaux region of South Kivu Province in the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC). On Thursday, March 11, armed soldiers from the Congolese Army (FARDC - Forces Armées de la République Démocratiqe du Congo) entered the hospital in Katanga, where an MSF surgical team had been providing emergency medical care to wounded people. Despite MSF’s protests and negotiations, the Congolese soldiers harassed the wounded patients and left one day later with four of them. Click for high-res photo

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FARDC soldiers patrolling South Kivu in September 2009; members of the same force raided an MSF-supported hospital in the province on March 11.

photo: Democratic Republic of Congo 2009 © Moises Saman

PRESS RELEASE

MSF Demands That All Parties to the Conflict Respect Medical Structures.

Bukavu, DRC/New York, March 17, 2010 —The international medical humanitarian organization Doctors Without Borders/Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF) today deplored a serious incident that occurred in the isolated village of Katanga in the Hauts Plateaux region of South Kivu Province in the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC).

On Thursday, March 11, armed soldiers from the Congolese Army (FARDC - Forces Armées de la République Démocratiqe du Congo) entered the hospital in Katanga, where an MSF surgical team had been providing emergency medical care to wounded people. Despite MSF’s protests and negotiations, the Congolese soldiers harassed the wounded patients and left one day later with four of them.

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