Healthcare provision

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Not all disasters strike without warning. Some are slow. They unfold over decades as a disease devastates a community, instability undermines an area’s health system or certain groups are actively excluded from care.

In these situations, Médecins Sans Frontières / Doctors Without Borders (MSF) works to give people access to much-needed health care.

This can mean setting up an area’s only hospital or clinic, or running ongoing treatment programmes for diseases such as HIV/AIDS, tuberculosis, and tropical diseases such as kala azar or sleeping sickness.

An MSF outreach team walking in from their boat in Central Rakhine

Emily May

Advocacy

Speedboat medics: Reaching cut-off communities in Rakhine

When British advocacy advisor Emily joins a mobile medical team visiting remote Rohingya camps in Myanmar, she gains insight into the challenges of delivering healthcare to this minority group – and the discrimination Rohingya people face every day.

12 Feb 2020 / 7 minute read

The new MSF Medically Assisted Therapy clinic in Kiambu County opened in September 2019

Abigail Betts

"A positive place": Overcoming heroin abuse in Kenya

On a recent trip to Kenya, major gifts manager Abi learns what MSF teams in Kiambu Country are doing to tackle drug abuse. She also meets a former user, who shares his inspiring story...

04 Feb 2020 / 5 minute read

A child is treated for second degree burns at the L’Arche de Kigobe trauma centre

Kariantti Kallio

Anaesthetics

Treating burns in Burundi: "How do we explain this to children?"

Burns are common at L'Arche de Kigobe trauma centre in Burundi. But how do you explain the often painful treatment to children? Anaesthetist Kariantti grapples with this question as he cares for two young patients.

17 Jan 2020 / 3 minute read

Patients at MSF's L’Arche de Kigobe trauma centre in Bujumbura, Burundi

Kariantti Kallio

Anaesthetics

"Luckily, our care is free": Inside L'Arche de Kigobe trauma centre

MSF often hits the headlines when an emergency breaks in the news, such as a natural disaster or war, but we also provide day-to-day healthcare in places such as Bujumbura, Burundi. Anaesthetist Kariantti takes us inside L’Arche de Kigobe trauma centre.

13 Dec 2019 / 4 minute read

Wolfgang Funk

Anaesthetics

Which way is home?

For Wolfgang it's time to say goodbye to the people in the D.R. Congo. But every end also means a beginning and there is a magic inherent in it.

19 Nov 2019 / 2 minute read

Wolfgang Funk

Anaesthetics

The deeper the night, the closer the day

The clinic in Mweso in the D.R. Congo counts 13,000 inpatient admissions per year. Wolfgang and his team often reach the limit of exhaustion.

07 Nov 2019 / 4 minute read

Wolfgang Funk

Anaesthetics

The medical and the human side of care

Wolfgang's time in the D.R. Congo is short, just five weeks. But the team is eager to learn. And also Wolfgang is learning a lot - not only French and Swahili.

25 Oct 2019 / 3 minute read

Wolfgang Funk

Anaesthetics

Football, family and a new challenge

Wolfgang travels by jeep from Goma to Mweso. A big project and an equally big challenge are waiting for him. But first Wolfgang looks for the most important thing: contact to the people.

11 Oct 2019 / 3 minute read

Wolfgang Funk

Anaesthetics

First stop: Goma

After more than 30 years in business and most recently in a management position, Wolfgang fulfilled a dream: he returned to his roots and set off into the unknown. He blogs from the start of his latest posting, the Democratic Republic of the Congo...

01 Oct 2019 / 3 minute read

Melissa Buxton

Nurse

Crossing the swamp: How we get healthcare to the people in remote South Sudan

Sometimes MSF staff have to go the extra mile to reach patients, even if it’s through a vast swamp. British nurse Melissa shares her story...

19 Mar 2019 / 9 minute read

Claire Harper

Midwife

A midwife in DRC: "The roads are like nothing I have ever seen"

US midwife Claire takes a bumpy ride to a remote healthcare centre in the Democratic Republic of Congo

14 Mar 2019 / 4 minute read

Zuzana and a colleague in the laboroatory at Amman

Zuzana Ileninová

Biomedical scientist

Innovation: How my microbiology team helps the healing process

Slovak microbiologist Zuzana shares her experience from Amman reconstructive hospital in Jordan, where Médecins Sans Frontières / Doctors Without Borders (MSF) is helping war-wounded patients recover from devastating injuries.

11 Feb 2019 / 8 minute read

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Florian Lems/MSF

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