Blogs & Stories

Abu Khalid is an orthopaedic surgeon and director of an MSF-supported hospital in besieged east Aleppo. He left Aleppo on 21 August in the belief that the siege was over, but when it broke days later, he found himself unable to return. He is...

Dr Erlend Grønningen from Trondheim, Norway is MSF’s Inpatient Department Supervising Medical Doctor at Boost Hospital in Lashkar Gah, Helmand. He arrived in Afghanistan in April this year and is primarily focused on internal medicine, as well as...

“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. Lim Chin Siah who volunteers with the Nobel laureate Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF), also known as Doctors Without...

Here we try to plant seeds of hope, but in the aftermath of civil war... Sometimes your medical team pulls a miracle, but heartbreakingly the family asks you to let go. A 780g preterm baby (normal >3kg) came to us - miraculously and impossibly...

© Kai Cheong This is baby Kai. This is her MSF story. The baby presented late on day 10 of life with severe meningitis, increased pressure in the brain, refractory and persistent seizures, very toxic build-up of jaundice to the point of what we call...