Blogs & Stories
May 21, 2019
When I was young, I've always asked my mom for medical toy sets. I had kidney basins and forceps of various colors and sizes, and a couple of stethoscopes. During playtime, my friends and I would pretend that we were in a hospital – making up...
Apr 05, 2019
Inaccessibility to treatment and drug resistant bacteria are not the only factors that make tuberculosis challenging to address. This is what I’ve learned when I was deployed in 2017 to Zhytomyr Region, Ukraine as Project Medical Referent for...
Feb 17, 2019
February, the month of love and beating hearts, always makes me contemplate the pacemaker in my chest. I had it in 2013, two months before Supertyphoon “Yolanda”— the tragedy that made me decide to return to humanitarian work for good. You see, I...
Jan 07, 2019
Tobey Lee, Hong Kong Midwife At the Doro refugee camp in Maban, South Sudan, MSF is the only organisation that provides free obstetrics and gynaecology services in the region. During June and July 2018, there are up to 250 to 280 women coming to MSF...
Dec 07, 2018
Dr. Jennifer Tong Orthopaedic Surgeon, Hong Kong At 9 am on July 12, at the Al Awda Hospital in northern Gaza, the elevator doors opened on the third floor. A mother wearing a black veil rushed to the nurse station and asked to see her son Mohammed...