Stories From Patients & Staff

Residents of Lankian attend music therapy session at MSF health facility
30 Oct 2024

In South Sudan, mental health issues are overshadowed by poverty, violence, and displacement. Neglected by the health system and confronted by deep-rooted stigma, many people face their mental health struggles in silence, enduring a daily battle that goes unseen and unheard.

28 Oct 2024

Dr. Ali Almohammed shares how the current situation in Lebanon reminds him of his own journey out of Syria in 2014.

Lebanon
25 Oct 2024

Amid the ongoing Israeli bombardment and incursions across southern Lebanon, countless families have been uprooted, many seeking refuge in the coastal city of Saida. 

 

Psychologist Dr Trudy Rosenwald with Mental Health Gap Dr Jackson at the new mental health clinic in Balukhali project
08 Oct 2024

Dr Trudy Rosenwald, who has worked as a mental health activity manager with Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF) in Bangladesh, explains the connection between physical and mental health.

Lebanon
30 Sep 2024

Following the heavy airstrikes over the weekend and the past week, MSF teams in Lebanon have been working around the clock to support people in shelters with water trucking, psychologist first aid, and donations of non-food items in and around Beirut. Many shelters are now overwhelmed in what is being described as the largest wave of displacement in Lebanon’s history.

Cholera
16 Sep 2024

As the conflict in Sudan continues, a cholera outbreak is sweeping across several states of central and eastern Sudan, bringing yet more risk, death and misery to people already bruised by the country’s brutal war. 

Cholera adds an additional challenge to the crisis amidst mass displacement, insecurity, and difficulties accessing medical care amid a humanitarian response that is far below what is needed. 

13 Sep 2024

In this first part of a two-part series, MSF staff at a hospital in Myanmar's largest city, Yangon, talk to Shinjiro Murata, general director of MSF Japan, about the complex challenges of delivering healthcare to people in Myanmar.

The lab team in Kenema
11 Sep 2024

Microbiologist Candice Lynch explains the importance of being flexible when working with Médecins Sans Frontières/Doctors Without Borders (MSF), the challenges she faced, and her advice for other medical scientists interested in working overseas. 

water distribution

Dr Tejshri Shah, General Director of MSF and a paediatrician specialising in infectious diseases, recently returned from North Kivu, an eastern province of the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC), the country at the epicenter of the current mpox epidemic in Africa.