Testimony from MSF staff in Yemen

Name : Designation : I don’t really know how I can describe the situation in Aden in one word other than tragic. There are areas that are completely empty. People have evacuated them as they did not have the basic necessities of electricity, water and food, let alone the extreme deterioration of the security situation … Read more

Recovering from the wounds of war

Name : Ali Saadi Designation : Omar Al Balkhi, 29, was injured in a bomb blast in Daraa, Syria, and treated at first in a field hospital. He was later transferred to the MSF War Trauma surgical project at Al Ramtha hospital in Jordan in order to undergo multiple surgeries. In this video Al Balkhi … Read more

Indian Aid Worker In Yemen Describes Heartbreaking Humanitarian Crisis

Name : Designation :   (The article has been reproduced with permission from Huffington Post India – https://www.huffingtonpost.in/2015/04/14/yemen-crisis-indian-aid_n_705338…) Amul Rathi, 29, is an MSF India logistician who was posted in Yemen this February   NEW DELHI — It’s a father’s worst nightmare — having to shelter his child from war and devastation. A Yemeni aid … Read more

“The satisfaction that comes from helping people get better is incomparable”: A TB infection control officer speaks

Name : Designation : Thomas Albuquerque, a TB infection control officer with MSF Mumbai, is responsible for implementation of ‘Airborne Infection Control’ (IC) measures in the MSF clinic, patient households and communities. Airborne IC refers to putting infection control practices in place that reduce the risk of transmission of infectious agents from one person to the … Read more

All she wanted was a cure and that was her motivation: Experience of a Doctor Treating MDR-TB in Nukus, Karakalpakstan, Uzbekistan

Name : Designation : As a medical doctor with Doctors Without Borders/ Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF), Dr.Srinivas Rao, has always wanted to serve medically neglected people. Having studied medicine in Ukraine and being able to speak Russian, he was well received by the people of Nukus in Uzbekistan and worked on the multidrug-resistant tuberculosis (MDR-TB) … Read more

Pakistan: six months at Peshawar’s neonatal unit

Name : Designation : From July to December 2014, Dr Yasmine Ley headed up the neonatal unit at MSF’s obstetrics and gynaecology hospital in Peshawar, northern Pakistan. A look back at her six-month mission. “Her father hadn’t whispered Allah’s name at her birth*. He did it on the twenty-fifth day, when we were absolutely sure … Read more