Letters from the field

Topic	Date	Location
Haiti: “If She Does Not Drink, She Will Die” Interview with Michelle Mays, Médecins Sans Frontières nurse	03/12/2010	Haiti
Head of Mission While peace looms in southern Sudan, the very violent and hidden civil war in the Darfur provinces in western Sudan continues to rage, displacing half a mission of people. Last weekend the government of Sudan (GoS) finally gave...	16/03/2004	Sudan
Head of Mission, Sudan Australian Philip Humphris, from Victoria, is Médecins Sans Frontières head of mission in Sudan. He has returned from Darfur and, as the number of aid actors in Darfur continues to decrease because of the violence, explains what...	20/02/2007	Sudan
Ivory Coast: “Wounded Patients Are Stable, But Their Problems Are Not Over” Hundreds of people died and hundreds of others were seriously wounded during an outbreak of violence that occurred in the Duékoué region of western Ivory Coast between March 28 and 30. A Médecins Sans Frontières surgical team...	15/04/2011	Ivory Coast
Japan: "The people around me in Kenya saw it as an event in another world, but for me it was my problem." Shintaro Hayashi is a general practitioner and a specialist in gastroenterology who recently returned from a two-week placement in the area of northeast Japan that has been devastated by the earthquake and tsunami. His home is...	11/04/2011	Japan
Lab technician Olivia Yacoub is a lab technician from Houghton in South Australia. Olivia's has recently completed her first mission with Médecins Sans Frontières in Chiradzulu, Malawi. She has justed arrived in Liberia to commence her second...	16/10/2006	Malawi
Letter from North Afghanistan: "This is life and death under a magnifying glass" Australian nurse Brett Adamson has just returned from six months in Kunduz, Afghanistan, where Médecins Sans Frontières runs a hospital providing emergency surgery to people with life-threatening injuries.	14/11/2012	Afghanistan
Libya boat evacuation On Sunday 3 April 2011, Médecins Sans Frontières evacuated 71 patients by boat from the Libyan city of Mistrata, where ongoing violence has overwhelmed medical facilities with the injured. Alison Criado-Perez, a nurse and member...	12/05/2011	Libya
Libya boat evacuation part 2 We had just returned from Médecins Sans Frontières’ second evacuation of war-wounded from the besieged city of Misrata to the safety of hospitals in Tunisia. I walked out onto the balcony and saw a small, blonde girl, dancing...	12/05/2011	Libya
Libya: Dr Morten Rostrup in Zintan Since 30 April, a Médecins Sans Frontières team is working in the hospital of Zintan, a city located in western Libya, south west of the capital of Tripoli, in the Nafusah Mountain region. For weeks now, Zintan and the...	17/05/2011	Libya