Name : Designation : East Aleppo’s besieged residents have been told to leave their homes or face annihilation. As they brace themselves for what comes next, Amal Abdullah recalls the day four years ago that she was told to leave the east Aleppo neighbourhood where she grew u It was mid-July 2012 when the authorities … Read more
Name : Designation : “The siege has been bad, but we didn’t fear it as much as we fear the bombs. My name is Umm Leen, I’m a mother of seven and I’ve never been outside east Aleppo, from the day I was born until now. My eldest daughter is 16. She was six months … Read more
Name : Designation : Zita, 23, and her daughter Marie, 2 years old Zita came to the Kabo health centre, in the north of CAR, 10 days ago. She came with her two daughters Marie, two years old, and Nelpha, five months. They come from Ngoumouru, about 50 km from Kabo, where there is no health post. They walked … Read more
Two new drugs, bedaquiline and delamanid, are proving to be the very last lifeline for tuberculosis (TB) patients with the most extreme forms of drug resistance. While a few patients benefit from these new drugs in India, many die before being able to access them as they are not widely available. Nischaya, eighteen years old, receives the … Read more
Name : Designation : What does it take to deliver healthcare to a neglected population in a remote region? Dr Ram Kovelamudi, working with MSF in Bhadrachalam, Telangana, explains. I have worked as a doctor in different settings before. But I always felt something was missing. The patients I was treating would always have other … Read more
Name : Designation : Ruchi Brahmachari, a clinical psychologist from Mumbai, looks back on her time in Dushanbe, Tajikistan Initially, I was a little apprehensive. I have worked as a clinical psychologist before, but never with people living with tuberculosis (TB). Tajikistan is one of 27 high multidrug-resistant TB (MDR-TB, or TB that is resistant … Read more
Name : Designation : Australian Nurse Nicole Campbell has recently returned from her second field assignment with Doctors Without Borders / Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF) in Jordan. She talks about her experiences in MSF’s maternity hospital in Irbid, where she spent three mo Tell us about MSF’s project in Irbid The Irbid project in Jordan … Read more
Name : Designation : Dr Bhavna Chawla, a surgeon with MSF, recently returned from Papua New Guinea, where MSF provides medical care for victims of domestic, tribal and sexual violence. Here she recalls the remarkable story of one of her patients, who came back from the brink. “Ooh, you are going to Papua New Guinea … Read more
Name : Designation : As narrated by a MSF clinical psychologist treating Shareefa. Some names and identifying details have been changed to protect the privacy of individuals. Shareefa was diagnosed with conversion disorder at the young age of 19. Upon referral from a psychiatrist, she was brought to one of the MSF clinics in North … Read more
Name : Designation : Dr. Conor Kenny, in collaboration with Ifigenia Anastasiadi and Elisa Compagnone, recounts the evacuation of Idomeni and his experience treating refugees and migrants in Greece following the EU-Turkey deal. The forcible removal of 8,000 people from Idomeni camp in the early hours of the 24th of May 2016 brought an end … Read more