STAFF BLOGS

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STAFF BLOGS

In medical emergencies around the world Médecins Sans Frontières / 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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Carlo Brugiotti

Surgeon

Responding to the injured in Jerusalem: “The patients kept on coming like waves”

On Friday, 15 April 2022, Israeli police stormed the Al-Aqsa compound in Jerusalem and injured over 150 Palestinians, including children. Carlo Brugiotti, a trauma surgeon with Médecins Sans Frontières/Doctors Without Borders (MSF) in the Occupied Palestinian Territories, was part of the medical team that assessed and stabilised the injured. Here, he reflects on what he saw that day.

16 May 2022 / 4 minute read

Maurizio Debanne

Communications

Ukraine: “When the soldiers took over the clinic, I treated patients in my home”

Between 25 February and early April, the town of Hostomel, on the outskirts of Kyiv, was the scene of brutal fighting, and for a time was under the control of Russian forces. As soon as it was relatively safe to do so, an MSF team began to work with local healthcare professionals to restart medical services. Communications manager Maurizio Debanne has recently returned from Hostomel and shares what he saw…

16 May 2022 / 5 minute read

A team of MSF nurses perform CPR on a critically ill young child at Herat Regional Hospital, December 2020

Rebecca Ferguson

Nurse

“We rushed her to the red zone”: Saving a young life in Afghanistan

Treatment isn’t working for a critically ill little girl carried into an MSF hospital. Paediatric nurse Rebecca Ferguson and the team will need to act fast.

11 May 2022 / 6 minute read

Daan Van Brusselen

Doctor

Sierra Leone: My return to the MSF Academy

In Sierra Leone, MSF teams are working with a new generation of medics. Dr Daan Van Brusselen shares an update from a programme that's helping staff develop their skills and save lives...

05 May 2022 / 5 minute read

Concetta Feo

Mental health specialist

The bomb shelter birthday party: Mental health and resilience in Ukraine

Beneath the streets of Kyiv, the city's metro system has become a refuge for people escaping the terrors of the war. MSF psychologist Concetta Feo joins the team providing medical care underground...

02 May 2022 / 7 minute read

Blogs Team

Five staff stories from our frontline teams - April 2022

This month's highlights from the Médecins Sans Frontières / Doctors Without Borders (MSF) blog

29 Apr 2022 / 3 minute read

Karry Jose Felix

Surgeon

Haiti: An assignment like no other

A fuel truck explodes. Dozens are injured or killed. MSF surgeon Karry Jose Felix explains how a dedicated medical team assembled to save lives in a country where a weak healthcare system and political and economic instability made the consequences of the explosion even more urgent...

26 Apr 2022 / 3 minute read

Ayla Emmink

Doctor

Search and Rescue: Migrant of dreams

Dr Ayla Emminck recently spent three months on board Geo Barents, an MSF search and rescue vessel in the Mediterranean Sea. She shares an account from the ship…

24 Apr 2022 / 7 minute read

Noor Cornelissen

Project Coordination

Who said he wanted a fish anyway?

In Chad, an MSF pilot project is taking a new approach to humanitarian aid. Project coordinator Noor tells us more…

20 Apr 2022 / 6 minute read

Abubakar and the team at work in the operating theatre

Muhammad Lawal Abubakar

Surgeon

Noma in Nigeria: Ado and Ifeoma's stories

Three times a year, a team of surgical experts gather in the Nigerian city of Sokoto. They're there to perform life-changing operations for people affected by noma, a gangrenous disease which affects the face and jaw. Dr Muhammad Lawal Abubakar is part of the team...

18 Apr 2022 / 6 minute read

Staff carry a patient on a stretcher into the medical train

Joanne Liu

Doctor

Ukraine: “You have a medical train? I have patients for you”

With patients needing safe transfers to hospitals away from the frontline, the MSF team found help in an unusual place: the railway. Paediatrician Joanne Liu shares the story...

06 Apr 2022 / 4 minute read