I have performed my seventh laparotomy case in Teme in this morning. It’s another case of gun shot wound at the back, on right side of spine. The bullet stayed at left side of abdominal wall, just beneath the skin.
Latest Research Shows Expanded Treatment Could Turn AIDS Tide At a time when HIV treatment has proven to reduce HIV transmission by 96 percent, governments meeting for the UN Summit on AIDS must agree today to put nine million people on treatment over the next four years, despite strong opposition...
It’s the fourth time in this week I was called back to hospital for emergency operation. Luckily, it was 8 o’clock on Sunday morning after my early morning run ( 37 minutes for 5 laps ) and breakfast.
The Haitian cholera epidemic is far from over. A sharp increase in cases has been seen in the capital and outbreaks have been reported elsewhere in the country. Although the cholera epidemic in Haiti began to decline in February, it has not yet ended. In Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF) cholera...
An employee of the international medical organisation Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF) has been detained for weeks in Bahrain after being severely beaten upon arrest by authorities, with no information provided about his condition and whereabouts, including to his family and lawyer. Saeed MAHDI was...
On Thursday, May 26, 2011, a suicide attack left 36 people dead and approximately 60 wounded near a police station in the city of Hangu in northwest Pakistan, just a few blocks from the hospital where MSF teams staff the emergency and surgery departments. Working with the hospital's teams, MSF...
The international medical humanitarian organisation Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF) evacuated its team from the western Libyan city of Zintan on Friday 27 May, following repeated shelling. “The city centre has been shelled every afternoon over the last few days, with several rockets landing just 100...
Hurrah! I had my first run in Port Harcourt this evening.
It’s a Sunday afternoon. It’s the Nigerian Presidential Inauguration Day. It has been quiet so far.
