Seven years ago I made a decision that would change my life. After growing up in the city, completing medical school in the city, and spending most of my student life in urban areas, I signed up for a rural medicine rotation during my internship. After a nineteen-hour drive, I was in the regional hospital […]
In 2012, when we founded Hospitals Beyond Boundaries (HBB), a tiny non-profit, non-governmental organisation based in Malaysia, only few youths were interested in the idea of an organisation that goes into poor countries to build health centres sustained by local communities. Many preferred the action and adventure of emergency response to war, crisis and natural […]
Lassa fever is a deadly viral hemorrhagic disease in the same broad family as Ebola Virus Disease (EVD), Dengue and Yellow fever. Lassa fever causes an acute febrile illness, with bleeding and death in severe cases. Lassa fever was first described in Nigeria 1969 in Lassa Town, Borno State, from where the disease derived its […]
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A maternal health emergency: Maternal mortality rates in Sierra Leone are among the five highest in the world.11 out of every 100,000 women die during childbirth in the United States. 890 women within that same population will die in Sierra Leone. 40% [1] of maternal deaths in Sierra Leone are attributed to uncontrolled bleeding after birth – a Postpartum […]
Wangchuk Rapten, 24, is a paramedic and outreach health worker in the Highlands of Nepal as well as being a Buddhist monk who follows the teachings of Thrangu Rinpoche, a Tibetan lama who came to Nepal as a refugee and who has given education and healthcare to thousands Wangchuk is an Ambassador for One Young World, […]
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