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It’s International Nurses Day on May 12th- Let a nurse in your life know how amazing they are! Whether they scrub-up as nurse anesthetists in an operating theater, inject a vaccine to thousands of children in one day, manage the functioning of a hospital ward, travel hundreds of miles to install a mobile clinic in isolated communities or provide first screening for people rescued from a sinking boat, they are usually the first and last face patients will see when in our care. If doctors have no borders; nurses definitely have no limits. nurse ind2018 internationalnursesday nursesweek care health care nurses medical emergencyaid nursing doctors without borders india bangladesh pakistan greece myanmar yemen lebanon ukraine iraq malawi Permalink 219 11 May, 2018 We advocate for our patients and do everything that we can within our hospital to provide the best standard of care, but it can be quite overwhelming at times when what happens outside of our fences is completely beyond your control. One of the things I do in these moments to help keep things in perspective, is to take a few moments to walk around the health facilities we have here. I remind myself to focus on all the things that we CAN actually do, and that do make a huge difference. It is amazing how much is still able to be done right here in our hospital, even with all the constraints on time, resources and people power. At these short stitches in time I just marvel at all the activities that are happening simultaneously at any one moment: you can walk past the ER where people are resuscitated and brought back to life with emergency treatments, then past the out-patient clinics and see patients receiving life-changing mental health counseling and support for the terrible traumas they have endured. You can stop in at the training tent and see a new generation of dedicated nurses and clinical officers participating so attentively in learning sessions to improve their clinical skills and knowledge, wanting to provide the best standard of care to their patients. Dr. Saschveen blogs from Tanzania: http://blogs.msf.org/en/staff/blogs/msf-in-tanzania/treating-refugees-in-tanzania-perspective msf doctors without borders nurses doctor tanzania hope blog refugees nduta Permalink 465 27 Apr, 2018 Testing Custom 3-D Printed Prosthetics for Refugees Caring for patients whose lives have been shattered by bullets, shrapnel, or severe burns is often a long and complex process. Off-the-shelf prosthetics can be prohibitively expensive and are generally one size fits all. But no two patients are alike—from lifestyle to skin tone to aspirations, each has different needs when it comes to the prosthetic design that will benefit them most. This is where 3-D printing comes in. Check out our spring Alert feature on Medical Innovations https://medium.com/msf-alert/testing-custom-3-d-printed-prosthetics-for-refugees-6e36207abb0f 3dprinting 3d printing prosthetics medicine healing wounds conflict doctors without borders alert surgery syria yemen jordan amman innovation Permalink 354 06 Apr, 2018 Because I’m A Woman… Women & girls forced to flee face health risks & further danger on their journey, simply because they are women. Hear their stories in our special International Women’s Day feature: http://becauseimawoman.msf.org international women’s day iwd2018 iwd women womenshealth girls doctors doctors without borders Permalink 292 08 Mar, 2018 Conditions in Domiz refugee camp were dire when it first opened. Women gave birth in their tents. We set up a maternity unit with a 24-hour delivery room. 4 years. 1 maternity clinic. 3,400 babies delivered. 27,400 gynecological consultations. syria babies iraq doctors obgyn moms refugees standwithrefugees maternity doctors without borders msf Permalink 119 31 Jan, 2018 Illustrating One of the World’s Busiest Maternity Hospitals Aurélie Neyret, Illustrator with The Ink Link collective, recently visited #Afghanistan to help give a voice to the staff and patients of a Maternity Hospital in Khost who, for cultural reasons, cannot be portrayed in photo or video. Khost maternity, situated in the south east of Afghanistan about 30km from the Pakistani border, is thought to be one of the busiest maternities in the world. Over 400 (almost all female) Afghan staff work alongside 12 international staff to assist in the delivery of around 2,000 babies each month. Dr Guilia is a gynecologist from Italy spending two months in Khost. Alongside Afghan colleagues, she is called in to manage women with high risk pregnancies or those experiencing complications. On this occasion she performed a c-section due to placenta previa. This is a condition where the placenta grows over the cervix blocking the baby’s way out and meaning that a vaginal delivery is just not possible. Placenta previa can cause massive hemorrhaging and death if a c-section is not performed in good time. Men are not allowed into the #MSF Maternity Hospital in #Khost but are accommodated in a special caretakers’ room so they can be nearby whilst their family members give birth. This way, they are onsite to consent to life saving procedures like c-sections when they are needed. During this time health promoters like Barakat Shah give them information about the danger signs to watch out for during pregnancy, the importance of breast feeding as well as the contraceptive options available for free at the hospital. http://www.doctorswithoutborders.org/ drawing art afghanistan maternity babies midwife khost doctors without borders sketches Permalink 436 21 Dec, 2017 Two Little Girls Ian Cross is a doctor from the UK who is currently working at the MSF project in Kutupalong, Bangladesh. The project serves Rohingya refugees who have fled violence in neighbouring Myanmar. Here he tells the stories of two little girls who came for treatment at the clinic… She didn’t see the soldier who fired the shot. Her father was running from the village carrying her in his arms. Her arms were around his neck. The bullet smashed through her right forearm and entered her father’s head, killing him instantly. She didn’t talk much about what happened next. She crossed the border in to Bangladesh with her mother and little brother. Her arm was too badly damaged for us to treat in our facility at Kutupalong, so we referred her to the Memorial Christian Hospital, a couple of hours away to the north. The surgeons began by fixing the forearm bones. I reviewed her when she returned to the clinic with her arm in a cast. She couldn’t stretch out her fingers because the extensor tendons in her forearm had been destroyed by the bullet. After a month or so, she was ready for further surgery to reconstruct the tendons. She came to the clinic this morning, proud to show me the result. She could waggle her fingers. She was delighted. Her mother was so grateful for the treatment she received that she asked us to tell the world what had happened to her daughter. How can you be shot through the eye and remain alive? This little girl didn’t see who shot her either. The bullet entered her skull obliquely, in front of her right ear. The bullet traversed her eyeball and exited through the side of her nose. The eye was completely destroyed of course. The surgeons repaired a hole an inch across between her eye socket and the brain. The sight in her left eye is normal. Although she was unfortunate to have been shot, she was incredibly lucky to survive. These two little girls managed to reach Bangladesh and received excellent care. But how many more died before they were able to leave Myanmar? Read more from Ian: http://blogs.msf.org/en/staff/authors/ian-cross Myanmar rohingya bangladesh blog doctor doctorswithoutborders emergency Permalink 185 12 Dec, 2017 ZWA NGA BIEN (Look At Me Well) | Lexxus Legal, Sista Becky & Jeunesse Espoir Warning: this song will be stuck in your head all day! Here’s how artists and young HIV activists are tackling stigma in DRCongo #WorldAIDSDay HIV...