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Mothers at Jahun maternity hospital
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 / 8 minute read
Kariantti Kallio
Anaesthetics
A first time for everything: learning fast in Bangui
With a patient bleeding heavily, Kariantti and the MSF team had to act quickly. He blogs from Bangui, Central African Republic...
09 Oct 2018 / 3 minute read
Brigitte Ireson-Valois
Nurse
The dreaded phone call
In an Médecins Sans Frontières / Doctors Without Borders (MSF) maternity hospital in Haiti, Brigitte gets a call she had hoped wouldn't come...
11 Jun 2018 / 3 minute read
A blood bag hangs in an MSF facility in Syria
Vanessa Cramond
Nurse
Blood, iron and Aisha: treating children with chronic conditions in Syria
The health system in Syria has been devastated by years of war. This means that patients who require regular treatment, often for life-threatening conditions, face a desperate search to get the care they need. Vanessa blogs about one little girl and her determined family...  
19 Sep 2017 / 6 minute read
Lucy Williams
Nurse
'Less than an hour later, she opened her eyes'
Lucy is a nurse on her third assignment with MSF. She blogs about returning to Bentiu Protection of Civilians Site (PoC) in South Sudan. The site is home to thousands of people who have been displaced by the fighting in the area. 
03 Oct 2016 / 4 minute read
Laura Bridle
Midwife
Malaria in pregnancy
"Pregnant women are particularly vulnerable to malaria"
22 Jan 2015 / 4 minute read
Natalie Giorgi Alberti
Midwife
Iron, rain and donkeys
One day Fatime presented to the hospital. She was feeling extremely weak and complained of having had a fever. She also looked very pale.
18 Nov 2014 / 3 minute read
Veronica Ades
Obstetrician / Gynaecologist
Precious Blood
"If we give it to her, then the next person who comes in with a life-or-death need for blood will die."
27 Mar 2012 / 6 minute read

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