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I've finished the briefing in MSF France office and will depart for Abuja, Nigeria this morning. I'll stay in Abuja tonight, then fly to Port Harcourt on Wednesday. Teme Hospital is a Trauma Centre. I'm going to treat mainly trauma patients from...

I have been in Kinshasa, the capital city of the DRC (Democratic Republic of the Congo) now for almost 1 month, working in the MSF Coordination Office. I am here as the Financial Coordinator of one of the largest missions of MSF. I can say that it...

Ignorance and poor education sometimes bring tragedy. Like the mother in prolong labour for more than 2 days that gave to a stillbirth, girl with deformed left elbow that the witch doctor offered cure that turn out she need to loss her hand and...

We have an easy morning on Friday in our operating theatre but when we set off for lunch, there’s a pregnant lady bleeding severely while she’s in labour. So without second thought and forget about the lunch, we did a caesarian section for her,...

Today there’s a 14 year old girl coming in our hospital with a gangrenous left hand and forearm. Actually she fell and got her bone broken above her left elbow 2 months ago. Her family sought treatment from local curer and ended up with a gangrenous...