Name : Designation : Sandeep Mahat joined Medecins Sans Frontieres (MSF) / Doctors Without Borders soon after his medical training. He shares his experiences, from delivering emergency aid after floods in Nepal to providing hospital-care with limited resources in a rural town of India. My last day at MSF’s Mother and Child Health Centre in … Read more
Name : Designation : Ahmed Mandal has worked with MSF’s medical team in Yemen as a general practitioner and intensivist. He tells us what is involved in running a busy emergency room in a mountainous region of the country. Medical team at Al Dhale, Yemen. Ahmed Mandal is second from left © MSF It was … Read more
Name : Designation : In the wake of Cyclone Aila, daily flooding in both Bangladesh and India prevents families like this one from rebuilding their homes and communities. © Bangladesh 2009 Veronique Terrasse/MSF Nearly two months after Cyclone Aila devastated East India and the coast of Bangladesh, the plight of survivors is no longer headline … Read more
Name : © Brendan Bannon Designation : Mozambique: a mother looking after four kids and a husband, in a village in northern Mozambique, under the baking sun – and baking is the way she has chosen to push the family fortunes forward. “Don’t be afraid if you have HIV. We are all brothers and sisters … Read more
Name : Designation : Alan de Lima Pereira, a medical doctor, has worked with MSF in the state of Chhattisgarh in India, Abder Rafi in Ethiopia and Leer in South Sudan. He shares his experiences of these places. When I first heard about Doctors Without Borders / Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF) as a 14 year … Read more
Name : Designation : © MSF Planning to work in an unaccustomed and entirely new context with security concerns is definitely not the first thought for any doctor soon after completing three strenuous years in post graduation. I was interested, but at the same time was a bit hesitant, because of the varied challenges it … Read more
Medical doctor and medical team leader in Kitgum I’m gonna raise an army, some tough sons-of-bitches I’ll recruit my army from the orphanages. Bob Dylan – Thunder on the Mountain Twenty years of internal conflict in northern Uganda have generated an officially recognised humanitarian crisis: an acute medical emergency compounded by a lack of access … Read more
Though I am a first missioner for MSF, I am not new to Africa or working with underprivileged people. Before joining MSF I worked for almost 17 years in India, Ethiopia and Sri Lanka, in various positions including as a community health specialist, programme officer and lecturer. In 2006, working with [the international health charity] … Read more
It was my first mission as an orthopedic surgeon for MSF to Teme hospital, Port Harcourt, Nigeria. The flutter of excitement was perceptible because it was my first mission as well as the fact that I was travelling to a distant country about which I knew very little. I arrived in Paris after an overnight … Read more
“What I am doing here?” was the question that clicked into my mind on landing at Hargeisa airport. I had been looking out of the aeroplane window to see if it was a big town, and was astonished to find that I could hardly see the runway and was in for a bumpy landing. © … Read more