Lebanon

Fieldset

Lebanon is a small Mediterranean country of just four million people, bordered by Syria and Israel.

Médecins Sans Frontières/Doctors Without Borders (MSF) first worked in Lebanon in 1976, in response to its civil war.

We have gone on to work with vulnerable Lebanese citizens and refugees from Syria, providing reproductive health services, treatment for acute and chronic diseases, routine vaccinations and counselling.

Zeinab Hammoud

Patient support

Diabetes: "Our patients find joy and strength - they rise from the ashes"

Patient counsellor Zeinab shares her experience of helping vulnerable people living with diabetes to manage their condition, despite the challenges

13 Nov 2020 / 5 minute read

Sara Tannouri

Mental health specialist

"I needed to make myself useful to overcome the panic”

MSF psychologist Sara Tannouri looks back at the blast which devastated her home city of Beirut in early August and its impact on people’s mental wellbeing, including her own

10 Nov 2020 / 4 minute read

Mike Tomson

Doctor

Non-Communicable Diseases: A short assignment in Lebanon

UK doctor Mike Tomson returns to Médecins Sans Frontières / Doctors Without Borders (MSF) to help refugees and vulnerable people in Lebanon...

01 Feb 2019 / 9 minute read

Zani Prinsloo

Midwife

Lebanon: New Life In The Shadow Of War

Since the start of the Syrian war, around a million refugees have fled into Lebanon.

24 Mar 2017 / 5 minute read

Nicole Baechtold

Financial and Human Resources Coordinator

Lebanon: Meeting refugees from Syria

Nicole is a finance and HR manager currently working in the Bekaa Valley in Lebanon. The project in Bekaa aims to provide healthcare to some of the thousands of refugees who have fled the war in neighbouring Syria.

16 Nov 2016 / 7 minute read

Nicole Baechtold

Financial and Human Resources Coordinator

Babies in Bekaa

MSF Field Administrator Nicole Bächtold spends a night in Bekaa's (Lebanon) mother and child centre. Before she knows it, the medical uniform is on, and she finds herself assisting in delivering four newborn babies!

21 Oct 2016 / 9 minute read

Nicole Bachtold and the MSF team in the car

Nicole Baechtold

Financial and Human Resources Coordinator

Half time - At the midpoint of my assignment in Lebanon

Nicole is working in the Bekaa Valley in Lebanon, an area close to the border with Syria. Her project mainly provides medical services for Lebanese and Syrian refugees in the area, and Nicole's focus is on ensuring the project has the staff and finance systems it needs to provide vital health care.

30 Sep 2016 / 4 minute read

Nicole Baechtold

Financial and Human Resources Coordinator

Behind the scenes in Bekaa

"Time passes very quickly and I realised that it’s been a month already since I arrived in Lebanon."

06 Jul 2016 / 5 minute read

Nicole Baechtold

Financial and Human Resources Coordinator

The start of something new...

It has only been about six weeks since I came back from my backpacking trip and here I am, sitting at the airport again, leaving for a new 'adventure'.

14 Jun 2016 / 6 minute read

Diyani Dewasurendra

Doctor

Last blog from Lebanon

After almost nine months I don’t feel like a ‘first missioner’ any more, even though I am technically. I feel like I have been here and breathing this air for many more months than nine.

21 Apr 2016 / 4 minute read

Working as a doctor in a high income country gives the young, unexperienced residents the illusion that medicine is for free and costs nothing.

14 Mar 2016 / 5 minute read

Amy Neilson

Doctor

From Tripoli With Love

"But the patients. My God, my heart, the patients."

29 Dec 2015 / 10 minute read