Name : Designation : As fighting intensifies to control the city of Raqqa, the city’s residents are once again caught in the middle. During six years of war, they have suffered bombing, fighting, persecution and public beheadings. Thousands have risked their lives to cross checkpoints and minefields to reach safer areas. Many of Syrians living … Read more
Name : Designation : Jonathan Whittall has been working in MSF’s newly opened field trauma hospital in a village to the south of Mosul for three weeks. The facility has received more than 1,296 patients since it opened on 16 February, around half of whom were women (261 patients) and children under the age of … Read more
Name : Designation : Swaziland has the highest rate of new cases of tuberculosis in the world. Multidrug-resistant forms of the disease are on the increase. For many DR-TB patients like Winile, treatment is a long and gruelling two-year journey involving between 15 to 25 toxic tablets every day and daily injections for the first … Read more
Name : Designation : On 19 February, MSF opened a field trauma hospital with surgical capacity in a village to the south of Mosul. It has two operating theatres, one intensive care unit, an emergency room, an inpatient ward and other necessary support facilities. The MSF team at the hospital is composed primarily of Iraqi … Read more
Name : Designation : Dr Bhavna Chawla, a surgeon, recently returned from Bentiu, South Sudan, where MSF operates the sole hospital in a camp of over 120,000 internally displaced persons. South Sudan became the world’s newest nation in 2011. But the euphoria of independence would prove short-lived, as the country slipped into a civil … Read more
Name : Designation : Mary Mayik Lual is a 32-year-old single mother of five, who worked at the MSF hospital in Wau Shilluk. When the fighting started, she was forced to flee with the rest of the town’s population for Kodok and then on to Aburoch where MSF is running emergency operations. On 3 February … Read more
Name : Designation : For the last two years, Francis Ronyo worked as a nurse in MSF’s Wau Shilluk hospital. He was one of the national staff on duty when the order was given to evacuate and leave for Kodok. For the last two years, Francis Ronyo has worked as a nurse in MSF’s Wau … Read more
Name : Designation : Children in many parts of Syria have not been vaccinated against preventable diseases. Sara Ferrer, a nurse who is coordinating the medical projects of Doctors Without Borders/Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF) in areas of Aleppo governorate, explains the risks. Sara Ferrer, MSF nurse, is coordinating MSF’s medical projects in Aleppo governorate, Syria. Photo: MSF Why … Read more
Name : Designation : By Caroline Willemen, technical advisor of MSF on mental health support for Syrian refugees A woman enters the sunny courtyard of an old house in Kilis (southern Turkey) to welcome us, summoning her son to clean a set of plastic chairs with a rag before we sit down. Her name is … Read more
Name : Designation : By Zanele Zwane, MSF Swaziland “You see, I am healed. Even my legs don’t give me problems anymore. Now I can walk perfectly. I walk around the hospital; go out for fresh air and come back when I’m ready,” says an elated Tholakele as she walks around her ward demonstrating her … Read more