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Dr. Akin Chan Surgeon Stepping onto the Syrian territory once again, after 18 years, I have a mixed feeling. I was still a freshman in the medical school in the year of 2000. I worked for different summer jobs for two months after the semester ended...

On this trip to the Old Fangak hospital, in addition to gaining the experience to complete the transformation of the operating room and dealing with mass casualty, the biggest honor was to get to know the legendary Dr Jill. I met Dr Jill on my first...

The recent civil war in South Sudan has been heating up and our surgical team at Bor has received a request for assistance from another MSF project located at Old Fangak. Old Fangak Médecins Sans Frontières hospital is located in the northern part...

As a humanitarian aid worker, I have always had conflicting wishes. On the one hand, I hope to save more lives, but on the other hand I pray the world no longer need aid workers, there are no more wars or natural disasters. Unfortunately, the global...

Awien is a twelve-year-old girl. About a year ago, she started to feel pain in her right loin. Her family took her to many doctors, and all of them said Awien was suffering from urinary tract infection and put her under endless cycles of antibiotics...