I have just returned from my first mission with Medicins Sans Frontieres in the Yemen and I can definitely say it was a life-changing experience. I was working in the emergency department of a hospital in the north for three and a half months. The biggest difference between working in an A&E in an NHS hospital in Manchester and […]
What do you do when there are no hospitals and there is a desperate need? You bring an oversize inflator and create a working hospital out of thin air in less than 24 hours. This is what happened in Haiti after the earthquake in 2010 and also in Tacloban City in 2013 after the typhoon […]
Like many doctors in the UK, I wanted to take time out of my career in the NHS to do voluntary work. Sadly, like many people, I found that I had to choose between my NHS job and working in a crisis zone. In my case, I chose to join Médecins Sans Frontieres four years […]
As the Chairman of Medicins Sans Frontieres/Doctors without Borders, I am privileged to work alongside a whole range of committed volunteers who support so many people all over the world. At the last count, we have over 35,000 people in our organisation and around 90 per cent of those are nationals living and working in […]
Caroline, a British doctor from Bristol, UK, vlogs from Zataari, Jordan – one of the world’s largest refugee camps. Here they treat people injured during the conflict in Syria, many of whom have lost limbs or have suffered other debilitating injuries. Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF) is an international, independent, medical humanitarian organisation that delivers emergency […]
Samantha Roper, 30, is training to be a paediatrician in London. For the last two years, she has also been working in Africa on humanitarian missions for various charities, including a stint as a medical team leader for Medicin Sans Frontieres in Sierra Leone running a survivors clinic for Ebola victims. Ebola is a pretty terrifying disease because it […]