Blogs & Stories

I arrived back here in Khost two days ago and have been busy making my way around the maternity saying ‘as-salamu alaykum’ to all the familiar faces. I tried desperately to communicate with the patients in broken Pashtu words and my national...

Just my luck. Despite coming from a fairly hot and humid Asian city I do not handle heat well. The weather here is stiflingly hot in the summer but the basement of the guesthouse was cool enough for me to sleep soundly through the night. Lucky me -...

A three-months break and I’m back in Afghanistan! I landed with good sunny weather, early in the morning when the heat had not yet set in. It seem that my previous months of practice had not gone to waste - this time around I managed to keep my hair...

It was 3 rd June when I arrived at Islamabad airport from my 3-day briefing from MSF Hong Kong. It was an amazing experience to see a sudden shift of environment where the weather is humid and the people wear the same style of clothes. After a very...

In most projects, being the sole surgeon is always stressful, physically and mentally demanding. You need to carry out all kinds of intervention to save the lives or limbs of our patients. There are always some rewarding moments; however, you also...