neonatal care

MSF staff with a young patient receiving high flow treatment in Yemen

The game-changer: How one MSF team is saving Yemen’s smallest patients

MSF teams work in crisis zones where high-tech treatments often aren’t available. Paediatric nurse Alison Moebus explains how one determined team in Yemen is overcoming this challenge.

15 Sep 2020 / 5 minute read

Footprints from children treated at Goyalmara hospital in Bangladesh

Paul Jawor

WATSAN

This picture shows more than just footprints...

On a wall in an MSF hospital in Bangladesh, a simple artwork celebrates hope as healthy children are discharged from the intensive care unit

03 Feb 2020 / 3 minute read

A premature baby is wrapped in a recovery blanket in Gambella hospital, Gambella

Harriet Zych

Nurse

A neonatal experience in Gambela, Ethiopia

Just one month ago, Harriet began her first posting with Médecins Sans Frontières / Doctors Without Borders (MSF). She is working at a busy hospital in Ethiopia, where she is working to ensure that very young babies have the best possible start in life. She blogs about her own first 28 days…

29 Oct 2018 / 6 minute read

Lanice Jones

Doctor

DRC: "My new name is Moto Mama!"

Lanice is a family doctor from Canada. She is currently on her fourth assignment with Médecins Sans Frontières / Doctors Without Borders (MSF), working as a maternity project in the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC). In this blog, she shares how she spent a day supporting an outreach team - riding on the back of a motorbike to provide vital health education to remote communities.

24 Jul 2018 / 7 minute read

Betina Austin

Nurse

Afghanistan: Imagining a Different Perspective

Betina is a neonatal nurse, who has recently finished her first assignment with Médecins Sans Frontières / Doctors Without Borders (MSF) in Afghanistan…

02 Feb 2018 / 3 minute read

Mårten Larsson

Doctor

A paediatrician in Guinea-Bissau: Treating Baby Aua

Mårten is a paediatrician from Sweden, currently working for MSF in Guinea-Bissau. He blogs about how the team rallied around a tiny baby who was born too early...

29 Aug 2017 / 3 minute read

Chris Sweeney

Nurse

Sierra Leone: "Christopher you are wanted"

Chris is a nurse currently working in Sierra Leone. He blogs about a tiny patient...

01 Feb 2017 / 3 minute read

Sahar Iftikhar

Doctor

Caffeine: letting me, and babies, breathe

Dr Sahar Iftikhar is a medical doctor working for MSF in the city of Dera Murad Jamali, in the north of Pakistan. In Pakistan women and children in particular suffer from the lack of access to healthcare and there is an real need for neonatal care. Here Sahar blogs about a very tiny patient...

19 Sep 2016 / 4 minute read

Daan Van Brusselen

Doctor

Getting ready for the baby boom

Dan joins the team at MSF's specialist obstetric hospital in Port au Prince, Haiti...

07 Jul 2016 / 3 minute read

Johanna Bosowski

Nurse

Introduction to Agok

I guess the first thing to explain is the name of my blog.

13 Apr 2016 / 2 minute read

Ally Moebus

Nurse

Good Things Come in Threes

Having spent most of her nursing career in Australia working at a tertiary paediatric hospital, she had already been present at more births in Afghanistan than previously in her nursing career. Six weeks earlier she could never have imagined being part of the neonatal team waiting anxiously for the births of triplets.

04 Jun 2015 / 3 minute read

Kimberly Sudheimer

Doctor

Focus on the positive

Kimberly takes a break from the stresses of work in Lashkar Gah. Admissions had dropped recently, but burns patients reached an all-time high. With a new doctor arriving who specialises in malnutruition, she get to devote more time and energy to the ICU's (Intensive Care Unit) and do her best to maximize the potential of the resources and staff there.

25 Mar 2014 / 5 minute read

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