Name : Designation : In Leer and Mayendit counties, in the central part of South Sudan, people are constantly being forced to flee the shifting frontlines of the fighting. After its hospital in Leer was repeatedly attacked, MSF realised it needed new ways to provide them with medical care. British doctor Philippa Pett describes how … Read more
Name : Designation : Over 290,000 people live in refugee camps in Tanzania`s northwestern Kigoma district, the vast majority coming from neighbouring Burundi. People are crossing the border every day – in January, nearly 19,000 Burundians arrived in Tanzania, according to the UNHCR. Unsanitary and overcrowded conditions, particularly in the cramped mass shelters that house … Read more
Name : Designation : The fight against tuberculosis (TB) has taken Thomas Albuquerque from Mumbai to Uzbekistan. He tells us what it’s like to battle the deadly disease in households and health facilities, and why Doctors Without Borders/Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF) goes the extra mile. Medicines alone cannot defeat TB. Because TB-causing bacteria can be … Read more
Name : Designation : Nishanth Arulappan, a doctor from Vellore, Tamil Nadu, worked in Yemen from August-December 2016, and witnessed the consequences of a brutal war. In this first-person account, he tells us why he doesn’t regret the time he spent there. Originally named “Arabia Felix”, the Latin equivalent of “Happy Arabia”, Yemen today is … Read more
Name : Designation : When war escalated in Yemen, Sana was abroad, having just qualified as a doctor. Hearing the news, she felt compelled to return to Taiz, scene of some of the conflict’s fiercest fighting. Now she works in the malnutrition ward of MSF’s Mother and Child hospital in the divided city. “I had … Read more
Name : Designation : Christopher McAleer, an MSF logistician, is just back from Taiz, Yemen’s third largest city, on the frontline of the war. “Taiz has seen some of the heaviest fighting in the recent conflict. There are airstrikes going on, and constant indiscriminate shellfire, both into and out of the city. The shelling often hits … Read more
Name : Designation : Baba, 37, is one of the dozens people wounded during last Tuesday’s airstrikes in Rann, Northern Nigeria. He is now being treated in Maiduguri. He lived in Rann since he had to flee from his home village of Kala, 10 months ago. “When the first bombing happened, I was far from … Read more
Name : Designation : At least 90 people were killed and 120 wounded on 17 January in an airstrike carried out by the Nigerian military on a camp for displaced people in Rann, in the east of Nigeria’s Borno state. An MSF medical team, which had started work in the camp just a few days … Read more
Name : Designation : Alfred Davies is an MSF Field Coordinator in Nigeria. He was in Rann when the aerial attack occurred, and in the hours that followed. Here is what he witnessed: “The first bomb fell at 12.30pm and landed just a few metres away from the Red Cross office. The plane circled back … Read more
Name : Designation : Valentina Viktorovna is a 52-year-old teacher who has seen her life torn apart by the ongoing conflict in eastern Ukraine. She lives in Pavlopil with her husband, a village located only a few kilometres away from the contact line. After losing her job, her house was repeatedly damaged by shelling. She is … Read more