Patients' stories

Topic	Date	Location
‘Caught in conflict’: For this family a hospital room is the only safe place to be Most of the patients crowding Boost hospital’s inpatient department have been affected by the ongoing war in Helmand in one way or another. In one room, grandmother Reda* sits cross legged on the floor, surrounded by six of her...	02/12/2010	Afghanistan
Voices from Dadaab We gathered the stories of recent refugees to arrive at Dadaab refugee camps from Somalia.	15/06/2011	Kenya, Somalia
Treating floods displaced communities in Southern Sindh Mohammed Khan* was spending the summer holiday, waiting to join the 10th grade when the floods came and submerged his hometown of Khaipur and many other parts of Pakistan. The torrential rains and massive water flows washed away...	06/10/2010	Pakistan
Testimonies from Tal The Rohingyas are a Muslim minority from the border region between Bangladesh and Rakhine State in western Myanmar (formerly Burma). Their accounts of life in Myanmar include severe human rights abuses: restrictions on movement...	10/06/2008	Bangladesh
Surviving in the Chaos - Stories from Darfur A third of Darfuris live in displaced camps. This means about 2.5 million people.	27/05/2008	Sudan
South Sudan: Patient stories after the violence Patient testimony of a 24 year-old girl who was shot in the leg and in the cheek in the attack on Lekwongole on December 27th, 2011. Her only daughter, 3, was abducted.	25/01/2012	South Sudan
South Sudan: "I Will Stay Here Until Our Home Place Has Peace." This 33-year-old man was interviewed in the Doro refugee camp in South Sudan on December 7, 2011. He was once a community health worker with an NGO in Blue Nile State, but has since spent 10 years in a refugee camp in Ethiopia...	12/12/2011	South Sudan
Somalia: Four year old boy recovers from malnutrition Four year old Khalif has been under treatment in Médecins Sans Frontières’ in-patient therapeutic feeding centre in the southern Somali town of Kismayo for just over two weeks when his mother, Abshiro Gedi, tells his remarkable...	03/02/2012	Somalia
Sheleme’s Story Médecins Sans Frontières teams are currently running outreach therapeutic programs in the district of Shashemene in the Oromiya region, Ethiopia. Patients affected by severe malnutrition are being screened by Médecins Sans...	13/07/2008	Ethiopia
Patients' testimonies	22/07/2008	Ethiopia