Blogs, photos and stories from the front line of MSF's emergency medical work
Logistican
Better weather means more dangerously overcrowded boats will set off from Libya, full of desperate people. Mark blogs about a rescue of 195 people from a small raft, and what happens when the team finally docks at port.
Logistican
"I just heard 800 people were picked up today. That’s between us, the one other NGO ship and the Italian Coast Guard. That’s 800 people, even though it’s winter when everyone thought things would settle down."
NurseLogistican
Josie and Anup are an MSF nurse and logistician who are working against the clock to design a new piece of kit which could save vital time in an emergency. In their last post, with just one day left of the project, their prototype failed. In their final instalment, Josie and Anup blog about what happened next…
NurseLogistican
"With only a day to go, this was by far the worst prototype we’d made so far. You could feel the energy leave the room, we were so deflated."
Logistican
Mark has recently joined the team on the MV Aquarius, a search and rescue ship operated jointly by MSF / Doctors without Borders and SOS MEDITERRANEE. Here he blogs about the team's work in the Mediterranean.
NurseLogistican
Our teams use Land Cruisers to get our patients, supplies and staff to where they need to be, across often challenging terrains. But Land Cruisers are cars, not ambulances, and this means finding a new fix every time a patient needs IV fluids, as these have to be hung upright to ensure the fluids can run freely. In the third instalment of their blog, Josie and Anup get to 'the fun part' of their project - designing and creating innovative solutions to a problem that had been costing vital time in emergencies.
NurseLogistican
'After years of coming up with quick fixes and temporary solutions, for the next three weeks we (Josie, an MSF nurse, and Anup, an MSF logistician) will be working with Fearsome, a product design agency, to try to develop a lasting solution that could improve care in MSF projects around the world.'
NurseLogistican
Our teams work in conflict zones, epidemics, and places where no other health care is available. This means thinking differently to solve problems that simply don't exist in conventional medical settings. In the first instalment of their blog, nurse Josie and logistician Anup write about an innovative new project that could save vital time in an emergency...