Posts Tagged ‘Medical’

Mission to Mwenga: Days 3 and 4

November 22nd, 2009
Blogs, Harriet
Mission to Mwenga: Days 3 and 4
We traded in our muddy Land Cruisers for three rented motorbikes for our assessment in Kitutu, in order to visit the health centres. There are no roads around here, only footpaths through the forest. The health centres are in a very poor state here. I´ve visited manyrural African health centres in the last few years working [...]

Ready for a vacation

November 2nd, 2009
Blogs, Pav
Ready for a vacation
Let me tell you about my day. Woke up at 5am. Lay in bed thinking about everything I had to do. Got out of bed at 5.30am, took a shower in our horrid bathroom that leaves me feeling dirtier after I’ve showered than before. By 6am am sat at the desk on the porch outside the [...]

“I try not to think about it all anymore”

October 14th, 2009
Eyewitness, Uélé dossier
Story of Pierrette*, 15 years old Pierrette does not know her exact age, but she shyly suggests “around 15”. She was kidnapped by armed men, and held captive for two months. She became what is known as a “forced wife,” given to a man to spend nights with him… “Two and a half months ago, I’d [...]

“Locked in my room”

September 14th, 2009
Blogs, Colin
“Locked in my room”
I thought I’d update my blog since I’ve got a bit of time on my hands. I’ve got time on my hands because my girlfriend has locked me in my room. If you can hear a banging that’s her nailing lumps of wood across the door to stop me trying to go to work. Reason [...]

“There was fighting there, everyone scattered; there’ll be a big rise next month”

September 8th, 2009
Blogs, Colin
“There was fighting there, everyone scattered; there’ll be a big rise next month”
This blog is late. Three months late to be precise. It’s three months since I passed through the London office to get a briefing for my fourth mission for MSF. This time as a mobile clinic nurse in North Kivu, Democratic Republic of Congo. I said that if not too busy, I’d love [...]

Hello from Mweso

September 8th, 2009
Blogs, Pav
Hello from Mweso
Hey all, am writing this from my garden in Mweso, my new home in the Congo. It’s been a hectic couple of weeks but to cut a long story short, the doctor working at the hospital up the road left and I’ve been asked to leave Kitchanga to take his place. Gone are my lovely [...]

Back to the Dutch coast

July 8th, 2009
Blogs, Maartje
The last few weeks in Congo have flown by. Still so much to do, still so much to organise. And with the situation changing constantly, the work is never done. The Congolese love official speeches. Every last meeting, every event, includes a goodbye speech. It’s very nice but it doesn’t make my leaving any easier for me. Early in the morning [...]

Increased attacks on the civilian population have led to an influx of displaced people in North of country

June 11th, 2009
News, Uélé dossier
Increased attacks on the civilian population have led to an influx of displaced people in North of country
MSF increases medical assistance to populations affected by violence in North of D.R. Congo. In the areas of Haut-Uélé and Bas-Uélé, in the northeast of the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC), Ugandan rebels of the Lord’s Resistance Army (LRA) have committed violent attacks in response to military operations launched by the armies of Uganda, DRC [...]

MSF assists populations in violent areas of northern DRC and southern Sudan

June 11th, 2009
News, Uélé dossier
MSF assists populations in violent areas of northern DRC and southern Sudan
In the northeast of the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) and in the south of neighbouring Sudan, Ugandan rebels of the Lord’s Resistance Army (LRA) have been perpetrating acts of extreme violence on the population, in response to operations conducted against them by national armies of the DRC, Uganda, and southern Sudan. Hundreds of thousands [...]

DRC-Haut-Uélé: Continued flight from the LRA

May 19th, 2009
News, Uélé dossier
Thousands of displaced people have been streaming into the Ariwara area, near Aru, in the northeast of Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) for several weeks. They’ve been fleeing other parts of neighbouring Haut-Uélé where the Lord’s Resistance Army (LRA) has continued its attacks. MSF project coordinator Patrick Robitaille bears witness to the MSF’s team’s concerns about [...]
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