The day after the quakes struck, Doctors Without Borders/Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF) teams traveled from Caracas to La Guaira, one of the worst-hit areas, to assess the situation and respond. Since then, MSF teams have been providing care to survivors through mobile clinics, distributing emergency trauma kits, donating medical supplies, and supporting water and sanitation, particularly for those displaced.

How is MSF responding in Venezuela?

Donating medical supplies

As one of the only international aid organizations present in the first hours following the disaster, MSF was able to fill critical supply gaps when hospitals exhausted their emergency stocks. Our teams distributed emergency trauma kits and medical supplies to hospitals in Caracas and La Guaira, covering about 10,000 injured patients.…