Doctors Without Borders Issues Statement on Climate Emergency
September 19, 2019
September 19, 2019
NEW YORK, Sept. 19 -- The Doctors Without Borders/Medecins Sans Frontieres issued the following statement by Executive Director Avril Benoit:
"We saw this coming. As humanitarians, our risk assessments in different parts of the world have always factored in the potential for extreme weather events and the spread of vector-borne diseases, of drought, desertification, and mass displacement. Emergency first responders like us work up scenarios for interventions and gain experience . . .
"We saw this coming. As humanitarians, our risk assessments in different parts of the world have always factored in the potential for extreme weather events and the spread of vector-borne diseases, of drought, desertification, and mass displacement. Emergency first responders like us work up scenarios for interventions and gain experience . . .