Neal Russell is a pediatric doctor and advisor based in London – who has been working with Doctors Without Borders/Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF) for 10 years. Following a recent visit to MSF’s project in Chad’s eastern region of Sila near the border with Sudan, Neal provides his account of the situation he witnessed there. He […]
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Ameena is a nine-year-old girl who lost both her parents. She lives in the Annex in Al Hol camp, Syria, and is taken care of by another sympathetic camp resident. I first met Ameena in the Doctors Without Borders/Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF) clinic in November. She developed kidney disease back in August and was referred […]
Al Hol camp was not the first camp of displaced people I have worked in with Doctors Without Borders/ Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF), but it certainly was the most disturbing. The suffering in this camp is not seen in the traditional health indicators we usually measure. Here in Al Hol, the suffering is both deeply […]
Read More… from No Place For a Child: A Canadian Doctor’s First-Hand Account of Al-Hol Camp, Syria
The Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF) clinic in the Annex of Al Hol camp, Syria, is located in the “Annex service area”, with a controlled access point, and is open from 9am to 2pm. One morning in this clinic, a colleague asked me to examine a patient with him. I entered the room, and saw a […]
Vikki who is a nurse, Yasmeen, a translator, and I were standing out in the waiting area of the Doctors Without Borders/Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF) Annex clinic in Al Hol camp, Syria. We were there before the security forces had opened the gate from the Annex. We were staring off quietly for a moment, waiting […]
As Canadians prepare to vote in this year’s federal election, I am writing on behalf of Doctors Without Borders/Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF) to remind you that, upon taking office, Canada’s next government will need to respond immediately to a wide range of global emergencies, including disease epidemics, natural disasters, armed conflicts, and the humanitarian impacts of climate change. As […]
Read More… from An Open Letter to the Leaders of Canada’s Federal Parties