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YEMEN | Emergency evacuation "really cuts you up"

471 views · Published 21 April 2015 · 1:44 · Indexed 10 November 2026

Channel: Médecins Sans Frontières/Doctors Without Borders · 2015 · News & Politics

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As the conflict intensifies, MSF has had to evacuate some of its international teams. 

Christophe Garnier, logistician, has recently returned from Khamer in the north of Yemen.

"I arrived in Yemen at the beginning of September. It was an unstable country in need of medical aid but Khamer was safe, we could walk around. The Houthis were gaining ground the whole time, but you could do pretty much what you liked, it wasn't really that tense, well, not in Khamer. 

But then, everything changed, and overnight it became an unsafe country. So then you’re asked to leave, there’s no choice. It’s an emergency evacuation and, even if you knew it could happen, you don’t want it to. And you feel… it’s not a nightmare, but it’s surreal. 

And then you leave, you take off without having time to say goodbye, or even to phone just one person, and you leave your friends behind you. Because they do become friends, it’s more than just an employee/boss or work thing and then you leave them behind in a total mess and off you go. It’s all very well, you’re torn up, you cry your tears, but you’re safe and they aren’t and there’s nothing you can do about it. … And it’s not right… Well it is, because you won’t be able to help them from your grave, but it really cuts you up."

Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF) is an international, independent, medical humanitarian organisation that delivers emergency aid to people affected by armed conflict, epidemics, natural disasters and exclusion from healthcare.

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