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Four great blogs from Doctors Without Borders - August 2019

From the world's largest refugee camp in Bangladesh to a search and rescue ship in the Central Mediterranean, here are four great blogs from our work around the world this month...

31 Aug 2019 / 4 minute read

Alexandre Bublitz

Paediatrician

Hauwa and Falmata: Strength and resilience in Maiduguri

The ongoing conflict in Northern Nigeria has forced hundreds of thousands to flee their homes and livelihoods. Many of them have taken refuge in the town of Maiduguri, including Falmata and her daughter Hauwa. Paediatrician Alexandre shares their story...

28 Aug 2019 / 5 minute read

Hayes Wong

Doctor

"Another way": Trying to breathe in South Sudan

Searching for a way to save a young boy's life, US doctor Hayes comes to terms with the sometimes unforgiving reality of working in humanitarian healthcare

09 Aug 2019 / 3 minute read

Georgina Woolveridge

Doctor

Yemen diary, part one: The dilemma

With war raging and the economy in collapse, people in Yemen are facing increasingly impossible decisions. As she and the team race to save a tiny patient, Dr Georgina Woolveridge meets one of them...

13 Jul 2019 / 4 minute read

Blogs Team

Four great blogs from Doctors Without Borders - June 2019

From the opening of a brand new hospital in Sierra Leone, to the frontline of humanitarian healthcare in war-torn Yemen, here are four great blogs from our work around the world this month...

05 Jul 2019 / 4 minute read

Sierra Leone - The first little lady of Kenema Hospital

Amanda Hooyboer

Nurse

The first little lady in Kenema Hospital

As a new hospital opens its doors, Amanda shares the story of a very important young patient...

12 Jun 2019 / 4 minute read

The emergency room at the Bossangoa hospital

Antoine Clogne

Logistician

Supply logistics in the Central African Republic: First week of work

In Bossangoa, in the west of the Central African Republic, Antoine has joined the Medecines Sans Frontieres/Doctors without Borders team during the peak season for malaria. He blogs…

17 Sep 2018 / 4 minute read

Saschveen Singh

Doctor

Treating refugees in Tanzania: Malnutrition

Saschveen has recently returned from a posting with Médecins Sans Frontières / Doctors Without Borders (MSF) in Tanzania, where she was working as a doctor in Nduta refugee camp. She shared her diary with us...

03 May 2018 / 4 minute read

Nina Goldman

Doctor

A doctor in Bangladesh: Success or Failure?

Nina is in Cox’s Bazar, Bangladesh, where MSF / Doctors Without Borders are providing medical care to Rohingya refugees. More than 620,000 have fled violence in neighbouring Myanmar since August 2017…

17 Dec 2017 / 3 minute read

Liza Courtois

Nurse

Chad: Arrival

Liza is in Am Timam, Chad, where malnutrition and malaria have been hitting the local people hard...

19 Oct 2017 / 4 minute read

Chris Peskett

Nurse

Water is life: a day in Palorinya refugee settlement

There are now some one million refugees in northern Uganda who have fled the violence in South Sudan. They are living in four refugee settlements, where MSF is one of the few organisations present working alongside the Ugandan Ministry of Health. In June, Chris was working as a nurse manager, overseeing the activities of two of the five clinics run by MSF in the Palorinya refugee settlement which provides home to some 170,000 people...

05 Oct 2017 / 6 minute read

Sarah Wookey

Doctor

Night shift in Chad: Hot off the ward

UK doctor Sarah Wookey blogs about a long hot night in the MSF hospital in Am Timan, Chad...

26 Jun 2017 / 5 minute read

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