Pakistani

Pakistan: Occupational hazards and hepatitis C risk in Machar Colony

Hepatitis C can be life-threatening, but many people don’t know they have the virus. MSF health promoter Tassawar Ali explains how his team is aiming to change that in a slum community in Karachi…

22 Sep 2020 / 5 minute read

Health Promotion Supervisor Tasawwar Ali discusses the stigma of hepatitis C through the visual representation of a butterfly in Machar Colony, Pakistan.

Tassawar Ali

Health Promoter

Mental health matters in Machar

In many societies around the world, talking about mental health is still taboo. Health promoter Tasawwar gets the conversation started among members of a Pakistani fishing community.

21 Nov 2019 / 3 minute read

Zafar Abdi

Finance

How I became a Doctors Without Borders fieldworker (even though I’m not a doctor)

From the snowy mountains of his home country of Pakistan to a healthcare emergency in South Sudan, Zafar shares the story of how he became part of the team...

05 Oct 2019 / 3 minute read

The MSF team distribute essential items to people affected by the 2016 disasters

Ijaz Zarin

Project Coordination

Looking back : Responding the 2016 earthquake in Pakistan

In 2016 a double disaster struck the communities of Khyber Pakhtunkhwa, in northern Pakistan. Ijaz Zarin was part of the MSF team working to save lives after the district was hit by devastating flooding and then, just days later, an earthquake. He shares his experience...

11 Apr 2019 / 6 minute read

Hassaan Zahid

Doctor

Sea breeze from the south: A mobile screening van in Karachi

Hassaan and his team take to the roads as they aim to save lives with an innovative project in Pakistan...

29 Mar 2019 / 9 minute read

The MSF team involved in the hepatitis C screening

Tassawar Ali

Health Promoter

"We don't leave anyone behind": Fighting hepatitis in Pakistan

If you were infected with hepatitis C, would you realise? Most people don't, and that's a real problem in Machar Colony, Pakistan, where many people have no idea that they're living with the virus. Meet the team determined to change that, and to save lives in the process...

20 Mar 2019 / 5 minute read

The health promotion team at an awareness-raising event for hepatitis C

Linnea Näsholm

Health Promoter

Health promotion in Karachi: how a visit to a fish factory is helping to fight hepatitis C

Hepatitis C can be fatal if left untreated, but 90% of people who contract the virus don't show any initial symptoms. Linnea is in Pakistan as part of a dyamic team responding to this 'silent killer'...

12 Mar 2019 / 8 minute read

Sundas Parvez

Nurse

Pakistan: The miracle babies

Sundas meets a mother of quadruplets...

08 Mar 2019 / 2 minute read

Khurshid Ahmad consulting with a patient in Pakistan

Khurshid Ahmed

Nurse

Pakistan: A new way of treating hepatitis C

In Machar Colony, a slum area of Karachi, an Médecins Sans Frontières / Doctors Without Borders (MSF) team have been treating patients for Hepatitis C using a new line of drugs to combat the virus.

01 Feb 2019 / 4 minute read

Tariq Khan

Project Coordination

Pakistan: “I am happy that I am somehow helping my people”

Tariq is a project coordinator assistant at a Médecins Sans Frontières / Doctors Without Borders (MSF) hospital in Chaman, a town on the Pakistani border with Afghanistan. In this blog, he shares how he is proud to help the people of his hometown.

09 Oct 2018 / 2 minute read

The triplets at Peshawar Women’s Hospital

Sundas Parvez

Nurse

Pakistan: Three baby girls and a proud mother

Sundas Parvez is a nurse in the newborn unit at Peshawar Women’s Hospital in Pakistan, where she has been working with Médecins Sans Frontières / Doctors Without Borders (MSF) since 2014. In this blog, she writes about caring for newborn triplets and the chance to speak to their mother.

26 Sep 2018 / 3 minute read

Zeeshan Danish

Logistician

“It tests your flexibility”: Training MSF logistics teams around the world

Zeeshan is a deputy logistics coordinator from Malakand in Pakistan. He works to supply resources to vital humanitarian projects run by Médecins Sans Frontières / Doctors Without Borders (MSF) across the country. In this blog, he shares his love of going on “detachment” with MSF, training teams in other projects around the world.

16 Aug 2018 / 4 minute read