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Every year more than 40 000 people die in Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF) healthcare facilities. The nature or stage of their disease means that most of those deaths are inevitable. They are people who are too sick or severely wounded to survive; people who arrived too late or were born too soon for any curative intervention to be effective. Most are children, which is unsurprising as they make up the largest proportion of our global patient cohort.