Blogs & Stories

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...

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. When the militant group overran his home city in June 2014, he and his family fled...

Australian Robert Onus is the field coordinator for the Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF) project in Abou Ghraib, Bagdad. As the conflict in Iraq rages on he describes the situation facing the Iraqi people and the program of MSF to address the medical...

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. He describes what happens when the crew receives a distress call. “We heard the news of the first...