Surgeon

“I hope, someday, she can hold a newborn baby against her heart”

Heidi Wikström is a Finnish surgeon currently on assignment with Médecins Sans Frontières / Doctors Without Borders (MSF) in the Abyei Special Administrative Area – a disputed region between Sudan and South Sudan – where MSF operates the area’s only secondary healthcare facility.

26 Jun 2018 / 3 minute read

Akin Chan

“I promised to save his son”: An MSF surgeon returns to Syria

Akin writes about his emotional return to the country he fell in love with – including his fight to save the lives of two young boys.

16 Jun 2018 / 7 minute read

Mukul Singhal

Zehra’s story: "Her smile can light up the entire hospital"

Orthopaedic surgeon Mukul Singhal recently returned from Jordan, where MSF provides medical and psychological care to war-wounded patients from Syria. He tells the story of an inspiring young patient and her family...

19 Jan 2018 / 3 minute read

Shannon Chan

Innovation: Keeping it local

Innovation can mean finding high-tech solutions. But not always. Earlier this year surgeon Shannon Chan travelled to Bor in South Sudan, where she discovered that you can achieve a lot with local materials and a little ingenuity...

02 Nov 2017 / 5 minute read

Surgery in South Sudan: Facing death

Surgeon Tomas blogs about an emergency surgery on an eighteen year old girl in South Sudan.

14 Jun 2017 / 8 minute read

Surgery in South Sudan: the bald surgeon

Tomas discusses surgeries, head shaving and landmines: his account of a normal day in South Sudan.

08 Jun 2017 / 7 minute read

Surgery: Let's not confuse the baby's back with its bottom...

Surgeon Tomas operates on various patients, including a a child needing a gastrostomy, a boy with a broken leg and delivers a baby.

31 May 2017 / 6 minute read

Yemen: Goodbye little girl, goodbye Yemen

Hella Hultin is a surgeon from Sweden. She has recently returned from her assignment with Médecins Sans Frontières/Doctors Without Borders (MSF) in Khameer, Yemen. Here she blogs about her final day on assignment, and a tiny patient who is close to her heart.

27 Apr 2017 / 2 minute read

Yemen: Dummy training and de-cluttering

Hella Hultin is a surgeon from Sweden. She is currently on assignment with Médecins Sans Frontières/Doctors Without Borders (MSF) in Khameer, Yemen. Here she blogs about collaborating with her colleague to design better working methods in emergencies.

20 Apr 2017 / 2 minute read

Yemen: The little girl is losing oxygen

Hella Hultin is a surgeon from Sweden. She is currently on assignment with Médecins Sans Frontières/Doctors Without Borders (MSF) in Khameer, Yemen. Here she blogs about a little patient returning to the operating theatre for a second time, in desperate need of medical care.

13 Apr 2017 / 2 minute read

South Sudan: With brain injuries, it's not luck that counts - it's preparation

When Tomas arrived in South Sudan, he found he was missing one bit of surgeon’s kit. Here he explains how the instruments he ordered mainly as a precaution meant the team had a chance to save a young boy’s life.

07 Apr 2017 / 10 minute read