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Helping Syrian wounded and victims of violence in Africa - MSF scrapbook #22
Welcome to the weekly round-up of MSF news. This week, our teams have been inundated in Syria, we have been treating victims of violence across Africa and we marked the third anniversary of the Haiti earthquake.
Syria
- Two catastrophic events in Syria this week, a market bombing and a barrel bombing, mean our teams are working around the clock. Watch the video below for some background on our recent work in Syria.
Had the honour of interviewing the most amazing @MSF_uk surgeon last week. A true hero and a perfectly lovely gentleman dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2…
Fantastic interview w/ veteran #MSF surgeon in the @MailOnline about operating from a cave in #Syria msf.me/WWvMIQAlso in the news
- Three years after the earthquake in Haiti, healthcare systems are still found wanting. Violence has broken out in several places in Africa: the conflict has escalated in Mali, rapes are being reported in the DRC and inter-communal violence continues in Kenya.
#Mali's army has not regained control of central town of Konna as previously thought, French military official says bbc.in/107d0pz- MSF is healing the mental scars of inter-communal violence in the Tana Delta region of Kenya msf.me/13uILbY
On the blogs
- Meet Emma and Emily, a nurse and a doctor from the UK who are blogging for us from Uzbekistan and South Sudan respectively. Warning: you may find it very hard to stop reading once you start.
Voices from the field blog: Pre-departure by Dr Emily Wise who works on TB projects with @MSF_uk bit.ly/UQCDUM- Intense training, manoeuvring with a 50kg backpack and an MSF version of 'I Will Survive'. Emily blogs about MSF's pre-mission training course. Please leave your questions and comments for Emily below her blog post. http://msf.me/13uE81j
- Meet British nurse Emma who has just started her first MSF mission in South Sudan, working with outpatients, childhood immunisation and community outreach programmes. Please leave your questions and comments for Emma below her blog post. http://msf.me/WJ0iWO
"We are united by our determination to both tackle TB and to dance badly. It' bonkers but brilliant and London may well look downright boring after Nukus, the new centre of the social universe." British doctor Emily arrives in Uzbekistan and gets to grips with tackling TB. Please leave your comments and questions in the comments box below Emily's blog post. http://msf.me/U3rv9V
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