Last MSF facility shuts down in tribal areas

Closure ends the organisation’s fouryear stint in the Bajaur

Pakistan on Thursday told medical charity Medecins Sans Frontieres’ (MSF) to shut its last remaining facility in the impoverished tribal belt bordering Afghanistan, the health organisation said. The closure ends MSF’s four-year stint in the Bajaur region of the Federally Administered Tribal Areas (FATA), where health care access is limited, and hits 120 staff working there. The move comes seven weeks after the medical charity was ordered to shut down two health facilities it ran for 14 years in the nearby Kurram district.