Blogs & Stories

Here we try to plant seeds of hope, but in the aftermath of civil war... Sometimes your medical team pulls a miracle, but heartbreakingly the family asks you to let go. A 780g preterm baby (normal >3kg) came to us - miraculously and impossibly...

© Kai Cheong This is baby Kai. This is her MSF story. The baby presented late on day 10 of life with severe meningitis, increased pressure in the brain, refractory and persistent seizures, very toxic build-up of jaundice to the point of what we call...

(Continue of Gogrial - Paradise of kindness and brutality (1) ) As there are only two doctors, me and another Burmese physician Kyi, weekend rest days do not really exist. One particular Sunday, I stroll jauntily towards the two buildings that...

The mornings begin with stepping out of my tukul (mud hut), blinking sleepily against the brilliant violets and roaring oranges of an African sunrise. The glorious glow illuminates the sharp rays of towering palm tree fronds, ripe with heavy and...

A mother fleeing mass killings was raped by a soldier in the chaos of a country at civil war, and was shunned by her family and community on returning home during a tenuous ceasefire. She had no education to support herself to overcome poverty or...