Chad | Blogs from Doctors Without Borders

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Chad is at the centre of a humanitarian crisis. Conflict in neighbouring Nigeria spilled over in 2015, when Boko Haram launched its violent assault in the Lake Chad region. There are now hundreds of thousands of refugees from Sudan, Central African Republic (CAR) and Nigeria in the country. Meanwhile, Chad has as many as 170,000 internally displaced people, uprooted from their homes and livelihoods into makeshift camps.

Médecins Sans Frontières/Doctors Without Borders (MSF) first worked in Chad in 1981. Our work focuses on responding to armed conflict, treating endemic/epidemic disease (primarily malnutrition and malaria), and treating people otherwise excluded from medical attention, including refugees and displaced people

Liza Courtois

Nurse

Chad: Control over women

Liza blogs from Chad about the role of women in the community where she's based.

29 Nov 2017 / 4 minute read

Lanice Jones

Doctor

Chad: Tiny Hands

Lanice is a doctor from Canada, currently using her skills in the maternity department of the MSF hospital in Am Timan, Chad...

17 Nov 2017 / 5 minute read

Liza Courtois

Nurse

Chad: The first time

On a new assignment with MSF / Doctors without Borders, there are always a lot of 'firsts'. Liza shares a few of hers from Chad...

06 Nov 2017 / 4 minute read

Liza Courtois

Nurse

Chad: Chez Moi

Where do field workers live when they're on assignment with MSF / Doctors Without Borders? Liza is in Am Timan, Chad, and in today's blog post, she invites us in...

26 Oct 2017 / 4 minute read

Liza Courtois

Nurse

Chad: A typical day

What's a 'normal' day like when you're working with Doctors Without Borders / MSF? Nurse Liza is is Am Timan, Chad, and shares hers...

22 Oct 2017 / 4 minute read

Liza Courtois

Nurse

Chad: Arrival

Liza is in Am Timam, Chad, where malnutrition and malaria have been hitting the local people hard...

19 Oct 2017 / 4 minute read

Lanice Jones

Doctor

Re-Animation!

"In French, resuscitation is called ‘reanimation’. This did feel very much like a body becoming re-animated, returning to life."

01 Oct 2017 / 4 minute read

Sarah Wookey

Doctor

Night shift in Chad: Hot off the ward

UK doctor Sarah Wookey blogs about a long hot night in the MSF hospital in Am Timan, Chad...

26 Jun 2017 / 5 minute read

Sarah Wookey

Doctor

Chad: Jumping Jack Flash

Sarah is a GP from the UK, on assignment with Médecins Sans Frontières/Doctors Without Borders (MSF) in Chad, Africa's fifth largest country. She blogs about camel road rage, boozy anecdotes and magic capsules...

07 Apr 2017 / 5 minute read

Armando 'Armandoc' Garcia

Doctor

Chad: The crossroads

Armando is a doctor working with Médecins Sans Frontières/Doctor Without Borders (MSF) in Chad. Here he blogs about the significance of Lake Chad: a crossroads of violence, hope and solidarity during recent armed conflict.

04 Apr 2017 / 3 minute read

Sarah Wookey

Doctor

Chad: The Angry Blog

Sarah is a GP from the UK, on assignment with Médecins Sans Frontières/Doctors Without Borders (MSF) in Chad, Africa's fifth largest country.

21 Mar 2017 / 6 minute read

Alexandra Chen

WATSAN

My WATSAN life in Chad: Month 4

Alex has been fighting hepatitis E in Chad. Now it's time to let other organisations respond to the outbreak...

28 Feb 2017 / 3 minute read