Blogs & Stories
Jun 28, 2017
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...
May 31, 2017
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...
May 24, 2017
“Doctor, doctor! Please come immediately!” Mama Teresa, our head nurse grabbed my hand the second I jumped off the MSF car in front of the office. “Come, come!” she urged. We rushed into the ward. And there laid an unconscious little boy. Beside him...
May 18, 2017
American medical doctor Theresa Chan is in Cambodia, based in MSF's hepatitis clinic in Phnom Penh. Here she blogs about a patient suffering the devastating consequences of hepatitis C, catalysed by lack of access to care in the country. Midway...
Apr 11, 2017
Jonathan Whittall has been working in MSF’s newly opened field trauma hospital in a village to the south of Mosul for three weeks. The facility has received more than 1,296 patients since it opened on February 16, around half of whom were women (261...