Letters from the field

Topic	Date	Location
Nurse Rosie Clifton is a theatre nurse from Fremantle, Western Australia. Her first mission with Médecins Sans Frontières has taken her to the seperatist republic of Abkhazia in Georgia. Rosie has been there since June this year.	04/08/2003	Georgia
Nurse David Murray is from Sydney. He has been working as a nurse in Nchelenge, Zambia since January this year. This is his first mission with Médecins Sans Frontières.	05/08/2003	Zambia
Nurse Helen Meville is a nurse from Wagga Wagga. She has been working with Médecins Sans Frontières on a TB program in Afghanistan since January 2003. This is her third mission with the agency, following previous postings in Uzbekistan...	30/06/2003	Afghanistan
Nurse Margie Barclay is a nurse from Box Hill, Victoria and is presently serving with Médecins Sans Frontières in a newly opened primary health care project at Rukum, in western Nepal. It is the first time Médecins Sans Frontières has...	10/06/2003	Nepal
Nurse Helle Poulsen-Dobbyns has worked in the southern African nation of Malawi for nine months until March. A nurse from Sydney, she was running an HIV project in the district of Chiradzulu, where patients are treated with...	22/02/2003	Malawi
Nurse Dr Samantha Tuckwell is working with Médecins Sans Frontières in northern Myanmar (Burma) and is on her first mission. She is from Alstonville, in northern New South Wales, and worked at the Cairns Base Hospital immediately...	27/01/2003	Myanmar (Burma)
Nurse Anna Dicker is a nurse from Lennox Head in NSW who is currently on her second mission with Médecins Sans Frontières in Port Harcourt, Nigeria. Médecins Sans Frontières’s trauma hospital, located in the Teme Hospital, opened in...	26/07/2008	Nigeria
Nurse Sydney nurse Julie Gawthorne writes to us from Khartoum, Sudan, where she is preparing to fly home to Australia. Julie was based in the Médecins Sans Frontières project in Zalingei, West Darfur.	20/11/2008	Sudan
Nurse from Alice Springs working in Ethiopia Colin Watson is a nurse from Alice Springs. He writes to us from Mathar in Ethiopia, where he has been working since March 2010. This is Colin's third field placement with Médecins Sans Frontières, having previously worked with...	25/08/2010	Ethiopia
Nurse/Field Co-ordinator Matthew Cleary is a field co-ordinator for Médecins Sans Frontières in El Geneina, West Darfur, a central base for Médecins Sans Frontières’s operations in the strife-torn region. After beginning operations here in September...	13/03/2006	Sudan