1. Home
  2. Blog types
  3. STAFF BLOGS
MSF staff in Guiuan unloads supplies from a helicopter coming from Cebu.
MSF staff in Guiuan unloads supplies from a helicopter coming from Cebu.
Fieldset
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.

ABOUT STAFF BLOGS >
STAY INFORMED
Get stories directly to your inbox with our Facebook Messenger service
SIGN ME UP
MSF logisticians unload supplies delivered by plane to Lankien, South Sudan. Isolated and difficult to reach by road, the project is often supplied by air.
Welsh doctor Jennifer Hulse in South Sudan
Jennifer Hulse
Doctor
From Snowdonia to South Sudan: Doctor delivers emergency care
On her first assignment with MSF, doctor Jennifer swaps the mountains of Snowdonia for the vast swamps of South Sudan to provide emergency care in the remote town of Lankien.
17 Nov 2019 / 9 minute read
MSF nurse Tim Harrison at work on board Ocean Viking
Tim Harrison
Nurse
"This story has affected me to my core": Life on board the Ocean Viking
The refugee crisis in Southern Europe has made headlines around the world, but what's it like working on MSF’s search and rescue ship in the Central Mediterranean? Experienced MSF nurse Tim talks about life on board the Ocean Viking. 
13 Nov 2019 / 5 minute read
MSF team cross river to reach tuberculosis patients in Papua New Guinea
Aurélie Rawinski
Aurélie Rawinski
Nurse
Papua New Guinea: Healing in the jungle (Episode 3)
Aurélie is part of a team fighting to save the lives of people with tuberculosis, a bacterial infection that mainly affects the lungs and can be deadly if left untreated. We join her on the ground as she reaches out to communities in the Gulf region of Papua New Guinea…
12 Nov 2019 / 6 minute read
Margaret Ngunang
Margaret Ngunang
Mental health specialist
Movie Night: Mental Health in South Sudan
A long stay in hospital is stressful for anyone, but especially for children. Mental health specialist Margaret shares a creative approach from a UN camp in South Sudan...
10 Nov 2019 / 3 minute read
Wolfgang Funk
Anaesthetics
The deeper the night, the closer the day
The clinic in Mweso in the D.R. Congo counts 13,000 inpatient admissions per year. Wolfgang and his team often reach the limit of exhaustion.
07 Nov 2019 / 4 minute read
A mother with her newborn baby in the maternity ward in Leer, South Sudan
Dan and Luise - MSF
Daniel Campbell and Luise Jaehne
“Maternity! Now!”
Logistician Dan is a trained first responder, but when he asks midwife Luise to teach him a few new skills, he's plunged into a life-threatening emergency where both a mother and baby face slim odds of survival. Told from two different perspectives, this story takes us inside the team at a maternity ward at Leer, South Sudan...
05 Nov 2019 / 14 minute read
View from the front seat of Dan's MSF land cruiser
Daniel Campbell
Daniel Campbell
Logistician
Before the next rain comes: mapping a race against time in South Sudan
With two patients desperately in need of medical care, logistician Daniel and his team must get them airlifted to hospital before extreme weather makes the journey impossible. He shares the story…
02 Nov 2019 / 5 minute read
MSF logo
Blogs Team
Four stories that take you inside life with Doctors Without Borders - October 2019
In crises around the world, our teams are working together to save lives. This month, we meet four of them. From Nigeria to South Sudan, they share their stories to bring you closer to life in the team...
31 Oct 2019 / 4 minute read
Ji Nacanaynay working as an MSF nurse
Ji Nacanaynay - MSF nurse
Ji Nacanaynay
Nurse
Dreams and detours: How I became an MSF nurse
From childhood dreams to the frontline of humanitarian healthcare, Filipina nurse Ji shares the less than straight forward path that led her to MSF...
25 Oct 2019 / 6 minute read
Wolfgang Funk
Anaesthetics
The medical and the human side of care
Wolfgang's time in the D.R. Congo is short, just five weeks. But the team is eager to learn. And also Wolfgang is learning a lot - not only French and Swahili.
25 Oct 2019 / 3 minute read
Tom Niccol, MSF doctor
Tom Niccol
Doctor
An "ordinary" morning with Doctors Without Borders
What's it like to be a doctor in one of our projects? From his 6 am alarm through to fighting HIV and tuberculosis, Dr Tom Niccol shares his hectic schedule during just one morning...
23 Oct 2019 / 9 minute read
Christian Falkenstein MSF
Christian Falkenstein
Mental health specialist
I still have a suitcase in Minsk...
... it will stay there too, which has a meaning of its own. This is how the journey lasts. And if I long to, then I’ll go back… (With apologies to Marlene Dietrich)
23 Oct 2019 / 4 minute read

Highlights

Search all blogs