Nishith Kumar, a medical doctor from Bihar, recently returned from Yemen, a country ravaged by two and a half years of war. In this interview, he explains the impact it has had on patients, and how MSF teams dealt with an unprecedented cholera outbreak. Ad Dhale is not a place many people in India have … Read more
Name : Designation : Arunn Jegan was working on his first MSF field assignment as the Project Coordinator in the Kamrangirchar slum of Bangladesh for eight months before he was pulled in to respond to the Rohingya crisis in Cox’s Bazaar. In the first week of September, I was asked to get on the next … Read more
Name : Designation : Cholera broke out in Yemen in April 2017. Since then, more than 860,000 suspected cholera cases have been reported in the country by the WHO and health authorities in Yemen. This represents one of the worst outbreaks globally in recent memory. Since the beginning of the outbreak, Doctors Without Borders / … Read more
Name : Designation : Trauma surgeon Shazeer Majeed has worked for Doctors Without Borders/Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF) in Yemen, South Sudan and Iraq. He is now working in northern Syria, a region gripped by instability, and shares his day-to-day reality of trying to keep victims of war alive. “We usually think of the remnants of war as unexploded … Read more
Name : Designation : By MSF Dr Ian Cross who is working in Cox’s Bazar, Bangladesh It wasn’t looking good for the thin 10-year-old girl lying on a bed in a darkened room at the MSF health facility in Kutupalong, in Bangladesh’s Cox’s Bazar region. After fleeing across the border with her family eleven days … Read more
Name : Designation : Violence at home can have a devastating impact on mental health. In Kamrangirchar, Bangladesh, MSF counsellors are helping women to cope. “Before, I had no courage to help other women because I was afraid of my husband,” says Saliha, speaking rapidly in the afternoon heat. “But now, I have overcome all of my … Read more
Virginia Lee is a counsellor from Australia who recently spent seven months working as a mental health coordinator in a community clinic in Delhi. The clinic offers medical and psychological care to survivors of domestic and sexual violence Incidents of sexual and gender-based violence are unfortunately not uncommon in Delhi. An average of six cases … Read more
Name : Designation : MSF staff in the Democratic Republic of Congo are living through the same trauma as their patients On the edge of a copse of eucalyptus trees, a play is underway. It’s a familiar tragedy with an identifiable cast: a drunk abusive father, a put-upon wife, and a daughter on the cusp of womanhood. What’s not … Read more
Name : Designation : Even as Yemen was reeling from the effects of a relentless war, a cholera epidemic broke out in April 2017. In the ensuing months, the epidemic would engulf almost the entire country, pushing an already vulnerable population to the very brink. It was this Yemen Dr Shiny Kaki went to in … Read more
Name : Designation : Dr Tufail Ahmad is a Pakistani doctor working at MSF’s nutrition programme at the District Headquarter Hospital in Dera Murad Jamali, Eastern Baluchistan, Pakistan. Tufail Ahmad is examining a severely malnourished child admitted in Inpatient Therapeutic Feeding Centre (ITFC) in MSF’s Dera Murad Jamali Project in Baluchistan, Pakistan. Photo: Nasir Ghafoor/MSF I’ve worked as a doctor … Read more