A MSF car was attacked in Somalia at 1:00 pm local time on 12 March when several armed men opened fire on the vehicle wounding seriously one of the workers. Ali Mohamed Addow, who works as a security guard, was taken to hospital where he is recovering from a femur fracture. Other three employees...
MSF presence jeopardized by second killing in 9 months A woman was shot dead in an MSF ambulance when an unidentified gunman fired on the vehicle in Vakaga province in the northeast of the Central African Republic (CAR) on 10 March. As a result, MSF has suspended its mobile clinic activities...
(Please note: This is going to be a very sad, bloody and horrifying story. I want to record it as it's going to be part of my memory for life. If you are interested in reading, forgive me for the medical terms and be prepared.)
I'm glad I can work with Philip, the Sri Lankan German Gynecologist. He has so much experience in the humanitarian work. He had joined 17 projects in Africa. I learnt a lot from him in last two days.
Yesterday was the hottest day I ever had in the last week. It seemed it was a low pressure zone. It was cloudy and dusty. Someone said it was 50'C in the tent in the afternoon. I hoped it would rain.
Fog surrounded our car on all sides as we drove to see Dou, who lives in Ou Miao village, thirty-minute drive away from the MSF HIV clinic in Xiangfan City in Central China. The driver complained that the heavy mist made everything around us invisible. But we are lucky compared to Dou. Since Dou...
There are only around fifteen cases left for me. I had my ward round and made the management plan for most of my patients in the morning. A lot of them are suffering from gun-shot wounds, traffic accidents, or burns.
