MSF in the Philippines

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"In one of the communities where we work, some 120 families live in an abandoned school. They squeezed into classrooms with no privacy, nor electricity, making the night-time especially tough. All of them were getting water from one garden hose connected to the neighbour’s pipe."
psychiatrist
MSF missions take a massive amount of coordination and effort, spanning several continents in real-time, which in turn can be intense, complicated...
psychiatrist
The jeepney sets out at about 8:15am. It looks like a battered old short-bus, but instead of back seats, it has two long bench seats along the sides...
psychiatrist
I went this morning to see “the boats.” I had been asked several times if I’d seen them, so I got the sense that it was something to behold. I saw a...
psychiatrist
This blog is mainly to get word out to friends and family regarding this mission. There are a lot of questions coming my way, the answers to which...
Typhoon Haiyan struck the Philippines on November 8, 2013, killing more than 5,000 people and displacing more than four million, wiping out homes, hospitals, and infrastructure.
Doctors Without Borders/Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF) has been providing medical and mental health care, focusing on the most remote parts of the country, for the last three months in inflatable and tented hospitals and through mobile clinics, reaching isolated communities by air, land, and sea.
Find out more about our work in the Philippines here.