Blogs & Stories

Dr. Tor Deng is a general practitioner working for MSF in Abyei, a region with special administrative status between Sudan and South Sudan. After graduating from medical school in Khartoum, he decided to come back to Abyei, his home region. He...

I used to work in the Accident and Emergency Department in Hong Kong. Sometimes I would hear my friends describe it as a "war zone". At the time I would just laugh and agree with them. I never knew how wrong I was. In Hong Kong I would see elderly...

One late night, our hospital received a patient with a gunshot wound and he needed emergency surgery. In Bor, you have to prepare everything yourself before operations, from electricity supply, to surgical gowns, instruments, etc. Fuel has been...

When I was in Bor, my height did bring me some interesting encounters. Upon arrival at Juba, the capital of South Sudan, no one behind the immigration counter believed my age. They thought I was 15 years old. That was perhaps inevitable as nearly...

During the three months in Bor, I never saw a patient nor their family shed a drop of tear. A woman who was pregnant with her second child came to the hospital. Her condition was critical -- she had been in labour for half a day when she started to...