MSF Blogs From the Field

Find out first hand what it is like for the MSF field staff who work on our projects around the world.

These blogs are written by a whole host of different people working in a variety of jobs from some of the most inaccessible and difficult places there are. They provide a unique insight into the lives of the people who are on the frontline of MSF's life-saving work.

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Kiran Jobanputra, MSF doctor in Bunia, Congo (DRC)

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And new beginnings

From a blog by: Kiran Jobanputra

Date: 02/09/2010

The closure ceremony was a great success – 350 people, traditional folk musicians (with the real one metre long Vuvuzelas, not the little ones we saw at the televised world cup matches), and the opportunity to remind the community of MSFs new role here in Bunia. The hospital Bon Marché exists no more – except for [...]

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Closure

From a blog by: Kiran Jobanputra

Date: 25/08/2010

I suppose the last few weeks have turned out more or less as I had imagined. As we have ceased to admit new patients or transfers (all are now managed at the general hospital), the wards have become emptier, the staff more melancholy, and the atmosphere a little strained. Project closures are not reputed to [...]

Chris Houston, Scot, logistician, karaoke singer

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Emergency Planning.

From a blog by: Chris Houston

Date: 19/08/2010

Emergency Planning. That could be the title of just about every blog I write in the next year, I think. Almost everything I am doing is planning ahead for emergencies. Some more likely to occur than others. It rained heavily today. I was woken at 6:15 by the rain pounding the tin roof like a [...]

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Targets and indicators

From a blog by: Kiran Jobanputra

Date: 19/08/2010

Yesterday I transferred a 3 year old boy from the General Hospital to  the MSF hospital (Bon Marché) – although most of the paediatric care  now takes place at the general hospital, we have retained Intensive  Care at Bon Marché for the time being. The boy was gasping, and had  that familiar terrified stare that [...]

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Motivation

From a blog by: Kiran Jobanputra

Date: 02/08/2010

Once again I find myself wondering what drives us to undertake this sort of work. I remember my friend Daniel saying that there are 4 motivations for working with MSF – escape, adventure, money and idealism. In talking of escape, he was referring to the fact that many undertake this sort of work when they [...]

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Reflection

From a blog by: Kiran Jobanputra

Date: 30/07/2010

At first I felt that one of the risks in this job was that you can spend too much time talking. At present I feel as if there’s not enough time to talk. It’s currently time to reflect, to identify how far we have got in achieving our objectives for the year, to identify which objectives [...]

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Goronyo Visit

From a blog by: Chris Houston

Date: 25/07/2010

The team were very busy prior to my arrival and with no NERU emergencies (another MSF team were dealing with lead poisoning) in our 4 North-West states being self-sufficient, they decided to take the full weekend off for the first time in months. Having only been here for a few days, I didn’t feel like spending [...]

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Good work

From a blog by: Kiran Jobanputra

Date: 23/07/2010

Each day brings an unpredictable variety of events. Last Sunday I woke to the news of an outbreak of viral hemorrhagic fever, which by lunchtime had turned out to be a false alarm (a snake-bite, I think). I spent the afternoon in a plane carrying out a medical evacuation, and the evening at an (informal) [...]

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MSF Blogs From the Field

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And new beginnings

From a blog by: Kiran Jobanputra

Closure

From a blog by: Kiran Jobanputra

Emergency Planning.

From a blog by: Chris Houston

Targets and indicators

From a blog by: Kiran Jobanputra

Motivation

From a blog by: Kiran Jobanputra

Reflection

From a blog by: Kiran Jobanputra

Goronyo Visit

From a blog by: Chris Houston

Good work

From a blog by: Kiran Jobanputra

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