Blogs & Stories

Alexander Shcholokov is now the medical advisor of the MSF project in Dnipro, in south-eastern Ukraine. He talks about his experience and his daily life as a Ukrainian doctor. My name is Alexander Shcholokov, but everyone calls me Sasha. I’m from...

Logistics coordinator Ricardo Martínez is leader of one of the first MSF emergency teams to arrive in Türkiye following the 6 February earthquakes. He describes the situation in the city of Adiyaman. “I left for southern Türkiye just after the...

Helping people restore their eyesight helps them regain their independence The idea for the eye camps came about through our work in various communities in Somalia. We knew that there were a lot of eye ailments, and it became clear that most people...

A torrential rain hit as I was writing this journal (in Oct 2022), the communication system is spreading the news of a Category 6- Storm alert. Refugee camps nearby got hit by slope failure, some shelters were partially damaged. The loud noise in...

Earlier this year Dr Darren Pezzack, an Australian advanced trainee emergency registrar, was part of the very first Médecins Sans Frontières’ team to work in the Pacific island nation of Kiribati. “There are the three things that stand out for me...