Blogs & Stories

Dr. Shannon Chan’s first mission was to South Sudan in 2016 and in late 2019, she set off on her second mission to Mocha in Yemen, where she worked as a trauma surgeon and trainer to national staff.. It has become extremely difficult to obtain...

One late night, our hospital received a patient with a gunshot wound and he needed emergency surgery. In Bor, you have to prepare everything yourself before operations, from electricity supply, to surgical gowns, instruments, etc. Fuel has been...

When I was in Bor, my height did bring me some interesting encounters. Upon arrival at Juba, the capital of South Sudan, no one behind the immigration counter believed my age. They thought I was 15 years old. That was perhaps inevitable as nearly...

During the three months in Bor, I never saw a patient nor their family shed a drop of tear. A woman who was pregnant with her second child came to the hospital. Her condition was critical -- she had been in labour for half a day when she started to...

“Doctor, doctor! Please come immediately!” Mama Teresa, our head nurse grabbed my hand the second I jumped off the MSF car in front of the office. “Come, come!” she urged. We rushed into the ward. And there laid an unconscious little boy. Beside him...