Name : Designation : Dr. Gayatri’s first assignment with Doctors Without Borders/Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF) was in Bijapur, Chhattisgarh. Below she writes about her work as a medical doctor there and how it helped her find hope in an otherwise grim situation. At MSF’s Mother and Child Healthcare Centre (MCHC) we were once approached by … Read more
All parties to the conflict in Iraq must spare civilians and health structures Geneva, 18 June 2014 — Following severe damage of its clinic in Tikrit as a result of the shellingof the city on 13 June, preventing the provision of medical care to approximately 40,000 people displaced by the recent surge in conflict in … Read more
Amidst Bombing of South Kordofan Village, MSF Facility Attacked NEW YORK/PARIS, JUNE 17, 2014 – During an aerial attack on a Sudanese village, Sudan’s air force bombed and partially destroyed a hospital run by the international medical humanitarian organization Doctors Without Borders/Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF) in the war-torn South Kordofan region Monday, depriving civilians of … Read more
Six out of the 11 rapid diagnostic tests available in the market are highly reliable, making the lab dispensable Barcelona, 10 June, 2014. – For the first time since Chagas disease was discovered 105 years ago, an independent study shows that various rapid diagnostic tests available in the market are highly reliable. This is a … Read more
Bangui, 3 June 2014 – The medical humanitarian organisation Doctors Without Borders/Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF) has just evacuated a number of staff members from the city of Ndélé in the North of Central African Republic (CAR) following fresh attacks on its staff and facilities. Violent armed robbery Around 1:30 in the morning yesterday (2 June), … Read more
Name : Designation : Miriam Kasztura, a nurse from Switzerland, has just returned from Berberati in Central African Republic (CAR). Since January, Medecins Sans Frontieres has been working in the Regional University Hospital of Berberati running activities in the emergency, maternity, paediatric and surgical wards, as well as providing support to several outlying health centres. … Read more
Abdulbaset Alzamar is a Yemeni nurse working with HIV positive patients with MSF and the Yemen Ministry of Health. He talks about his experience providing live-saving ARV treatment to patients as unrest tore the capital, Sana’a, apart. In late 2010 and the beginning of 2011, the situation in my country started to deteriorate. First, there … Read more
Following heavy clashes this week in the Donetsk region in eastern Ukraine, international medical humanitarian organization Doctors Without Borders/Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF) has provided medical supplies, including dressings, bandages, syringes, antibiotics, and stretchers, to three public hospitals in Donetsk and one public hospital in Luhansk. “A number of hospitals in Donetsk have faced a shortage … Read more
Since one week, renewed clashes between Christian youths and young Muslims have been producing more victims in Bangui. Some of them have been treated at the General Hospital, where Doctors Without Borders/Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF) supports the emergency surgery service. 16:00 Wednesday 28 May, General Hospital of Bangui. “There is fighting in PK5 . “ … Read more
Name : Designation : An intravenous drug user, Aamron tried taking his own life by a heroin overdose when he was diagnosed as HIV-positive. He met an MSF health educator while recuperating in hospital in Manipur. He describes his journey and how he survived with the support of treatment he received from MSF. We meet … Read more