Today is Friday, the prayer day. We don’t have elective procedure done. We have a rest day after the morning ward round. I have some reading at guest house.
The Dutch and French sections of Médecins Sans Frontières reiterate their grave concern for the patients left behind in Darfur and denounce the unacceptable conditions of their expulsion. The issuing of an arrest warrant by the International Criminal Court for President al-Bashir was followed...
Médecins Sans Frontières wishes to express its gratitude for messages of concern from the public regarding the well-being of its two workers abducted in Somalia. The organisation is working tirelessly to try and secure a safe release of its team. In view of the sensitivity of the situation, MSF...
It’s my first day in the hospital. It is not busy, only around ten patients with two operations done. But I need to make a difficult decision. There was a 100yrs old man, bed bounded, admitted 3 days ago with infected, gangrene left foot.
Interview with Paul MCMASTER, MSF surgeon in Vavuniya hospital, Sri Lanka Paul McMaster is working along with another Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF) surgeon and Ministry of Health staff at Vavuniya hospital in the Northern province of Sri Lanka to treat some of the tens of thousands of civilians...
It was another long day of briefing with different parties. MSF project is to provide nutrition, outreach, outpatient and emergency surgical services in three areas of the Sanaa Governovate in the North of Yemen.
I spent 11 hours in Doha, waiting for transit to Sanaa, capital city of Yemen. I finally arrived at the guest house at around 8pm. I was first told to have departure at 5am the next morning.
Contrary to earlier reports in the media Médecins Sans Frontières confirms that, based on its own information their two colleagues held captive in Somalia are in good health and are eating well. The sources on which MSF bases its information are reliable but MSF cannot reveal how this information...
