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Francois Dumont/MSF

Fieldset

In medical emergencies around the world Medecins Sans Frontieres / Doctors Without Borders (MSF) staff are working together to provide life-saving care.

From doctors to nurses, administrators to mechanics, everyone has a role to play and a story to tell.

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Achai Bulabek

Doctor

Innovation: "We are able to save many lives using this tiny, portable machine"

Ultrasound is often associated with pregnancy, but did you know that it has many vital uses in medicine? South Sudanese doctor Achai blogs about how training in the use of new portable ultrasound machines – which have traditionally been bulky and expensive – is helping Médecins Sans Frontières / Doctors Without Borders (MSF) save lives in humanitarian crises.

14 Jan 2019

Saschveen Singh

Doctor

Ebola in DRC: “This has touched my heart forever”

In the Democratic Republic of Congo, Médecins Sans Frontières / Doctors Without Borders (MSF) is fighting an Ebola epidemic – now the second-largest outbreak in history. At the end of her first week on the frontline, Australian doctor Saschveen shares this story of hope…

14 Jan 2019

Chris Hook

Doctor

Yemen: Giving hope to people caught in the crossfire

British doctor Chris Hook has just returned from Yemen. Since August, he has worked as part of MSF’s emergency team helping to set up a hospital in the Al Salakhana district of Hodeidah city. From the beginning of November, the city has experienced heavy fighting and shelling with battles getting close to the hospital…

11 Jan 2019

Blogs Team

9 stories from our field staff that moved, inspired or made us smile in 2018

From the personal to the powerful, from Ebola to innovation, these posts are just some of the many extraordinary stories shared by Médecins sans Frontières / Doctors Without Borders (MSF) field workers in 2018...

04 Jan 2019

Saschveen Singh

Doctor

Ebola in DRC: Staying safe in the red zone

Australian doctor Saschveen recently returned from the Democratic Republic of Congo, where Médecins Sans Frontières / Doctors Without Borders (MSF) is fighting an Ebola epidemic – now the second-largest outbreak of the disease in history. In this blog, she explains how our teams avoid spreading the disease while caring for infected patients.

04 Jan 2019

Josie Gilday

Nurse

Innovation: A day in the life of a humanitarian nursing team – The roll-out

After a successful pilot, Josie and the team are ready to launch their research project, using smartphones to track the work of Médecins sans Frontières / Doctors Without Borders (MSF) nurses caring for children in Bangladesh …

03 Jan 2019

Flavien Mercier

Logistician

Pakistan: Remote management, team structure and training

Flavien is a log admin from France, currently working with Médecins Sans Frontières / Doctors Without Borders (MSF) in Pakistan. After five months of “remote management” from a base in Islamabad, he is about to travel to his project in the town of Chaman, on the border with Afghanistan. In this blog post, he compares some aspects of his second assignment with his first one.

02 Jan 2019

A cow grazes in the old Waste Zone at the hospital

Eben van Tonder

Human Resources

Bangladesh: Tackling a huge waste problem

Saving lives doesn't always mean medicine. Eben blogs about a Médecins sans Frontières / Doctors Without Borders (MSF) team that's not afraid to get its hands dirty in order to fight infection...

02 Jan 2019

Larissa Vernier

Epidemiologist

Innovation: Introducing R4Epis

In an epidemic Médecins sans Frontières / Doctors Without Borders (MSF) need to respond, fast. But how to find the source of the outbreak, or to know which communities are most at risk? That's where epidemiologists come in. Larissa Vernier blogs about an innovative new project that's aiming to save them time in a crisis...

20 Dec 2018

Pippa Letchworth

Obstetrician / Gynaecologist

ER mode: My last patient in Nigeria

Pippa is an obstetrics and gynaecology consultant, recently returned from assignment with Médecins Sans Frontières / Doctors Without Borders (MSF) in Jahun, part of northern Nigeria’s Jigawa state – an area where high numbers of women and children die during childbirth.

20 Dec 2018

Courtney Bercan

Nurse

Memorial

Courtney Bercan, a nurse from Vancouver, Canada, worked with Médecins sans Frontières / Doctors Without Borders (MSF) on a search-and-rescue boat in the Mediterranean in 2016, the Dignity I. In December 2018, MSF was forced to stop operations of its last rescue boat in the Mediterranean, the Aquarius, due to political pressure from several European countries. This news triggered harrowing memories for Courtney.

19 Dec 2018

Joanne Perry

Doctor

A midwife in South Sudan: “She will sometimes sing to them between contractions”

The majority of MSF teams are not made up of international staff from overseas. Instead, from conflict zones to epidemics, most of our medical and logistical teams are people working in their home countries, using their skills where they are desperately needed. Joanne, a Canadian doctor in South Sudan, celebrates one of our incredible local midwives.

19 Dec 2018