Lulwa Al Kilansi is an MSF project manager in the Al Kashafa refugee camp hospital, in White Nile State, Sudan. Lulwa has been working in Al Kashafa for the last six months. In this personal post, Lulwa blogs about life for the people in the camp...
Rasha is an obstetrician who recently finished her latest posting with MSF, working in the maternity unit in Khost, Afghanistan. She shares her experiences...
"The sheer sight of the police frightens everyone in the Jungle equally — men, women and children. Some people, feeling stripped of what little dignity they had left, obey orders and leave their temporary homes with little fuss."
“This is how we live. Since when do people in modern Europe live like this? They put us in camps without decent food. We just sit around. We count the days. It’s a slow death.”
On 26 August 2014, I was born anew. It’s the day of my birth – and my wife's and children’s too. We are alive, it's amazing! In Gaza, life has returned.
In our clinical post-operative care, the MSF team is working under pressure, not because of the number of patients - we received 55 yesterday - but because of what they tell us.
When I woke at seven o'clock, my wife said, ’We still have one hour’. At eight o'clock, I received a text message from a friend saying, ’We’re stuffed’.
Finally I can sleep in my bed again. My five-year-old daughter is happy that she can drink her milk before bed and get a good night’s sleep. I'm lucky in that my house hasn’t suffered too much.
