Tag: Doctors Without Borders
Working on the front lines with Doctors Without Borders
“Welcome to paradise!”
This is how I was greeted last September when I arrived at the Bentiu Protection of Civilians (PoC) Camp — a small,...
Reflections from troubled (Mediterranean) waters: Doctors without Borders
When Italy’s “Mare Nostrum” maritime #SAR (search-and-rescue) operation was terminated in November 2014, only a few Italian Coast Guard and passing merchant vessels remained...
The world is their emergency room: On the front lines of...
In 1985, at the age of 10 years old, I saw my first picture of a malnourished child. It was a child from Ethiopia...
On the front lines of the fight against Ebola
Windsor, Ontario, physician Dr. Tim Jagatic has spent recent months on the front lines of a major international medical crisis, one that has created...
Saving lives and alleviating suffering with Médecins Sans Frontières
The devastating typhoon Haiyan in the Philippines. Decades-long war in the Congo. Southeast Asia’s disastrous Tsunami. Kenya’s vast refugee camps. Haiti’s cholera epidemic. HIV...