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Ryan KO
Oct 19, 2016

With less violence, more patients to seek medical care

I am happy to return to Bossangoa of Central African Republic, which I came 2 years ago when the huge humanitarian crisis started.
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Jason Cone
Oct 10, 2016

There is no such a thing as “free” vaccines: Why we rejected Pfizer’s donation offer of pneumonia vaccines.

I recently had the difficult task of telling Ian Read, Pfizer’s CEO, that Doctors Without Borders/ Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF) is rejecting the company’s offer to donate a significant number of pneumonia vaccine (PCV) doses for the children
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Abu Khalid
Oct 04, 2016

Syria: “I have seen people with injuries that I cannot describe”

Abu Khalid is an orthopaedic surgeon and director of an MSF-supported hospital in besieged east Aleppo.
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Erlend Grønningen
Sep 22, 2016

In Helmand: “Empty beds are the face of war”

Dr Erlend Grønningen from Trondheim, Norway is MSF’s Inpatient Department Supervising Medical Doctor at Boost Hospital in Lashkar Gah, Helmand.
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Lim Chin Siah
Sep 22, 2016

Bombs and bullets don’t stop this Singapore-based doctor from saving lives

“I’d rather get bombed and die straightaway. Don’t make me lose a limb or something. I’ll be very upset,” quipped Singapore-based Dr.
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Kai Cheong
Jul 04, 2016

The hardest part about being human is learning to let go

Here we try to plant seeds of hope, but in the aftermath of civil war... 
 
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Kai Cheong
Jun 27, 2016

Our miracle baby – the day a mother named her child after me!

 

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Baroj
Jun 15, 2016

Baroj: “I left all my memories in Mosul”

Before fleeing the advances of the Islamic State (IS) group, Baroj worked as a specialist nurse in the intensive care unit of Salam hospital in Mosul, northern Iraq.
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Robert Onus
Jun 02, 2016

Iraq: There is a lack of humanitarian actors in Baghdad area

Australian Robert Onus is the field coordinator for the Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF) project in Abou Ghraib, Bagdad.
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Ahmad Al Rousan
Jun 02, 2016

Search and rescue in the Mediterranean: “Stay calm, we will take you all to Italy”

Ahmad Al Rousan was on MSF’s search and rescue ship Bourbon Argos last week when news came in about three devastating shipwrecks in the Mediterranean.
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