A Kiwi logistician in Agok, South Sudan
Logistician Raque Kunz reports on his work from Agok, South Sudan, where he is working to support a 150-bed Médecins Sans Frontières hospital.
View Article“If the hospital wasn’t there, then those babies wouldn’t have made it”
“The neonatal unit was set up in conjunction with the maternity unit to care for babies who unwell when they are born. I remember one little boy who had suffered from severe birth asphyxia – his mother...
View ArticleA handy man in a crisis
How did your experiences in rural Australia prepare you for your first Médecins Sans Frontières mission?When my wife drove me to the airport to fly to South Sudan on my first mission as a logistician...
View ArticleMeasles in Katanga: "We are very worried about the risks of outbreaks in...
"If the epidemic of measles is now considered to be declining in Katanga, we remain very worried about the persistence of measles cases in most other provinces of the DRC and, consequently, the risk of...
View ArticleAfghanistan: facing malnutrition in Helmand province
What did your assignment involve?My mission was to supervise the general paediatric ward and inpatient therapeutic feeding centre (malnutrition ward in other words), working alongside an Afghan Head of...
View ArticleSyria: siege and starvation in Madaya
Brussels, 07 January 2016. Since July 2015, a siege has been imposed by the Syrian government forces around the town of Madaya, near the border with Lebanon in Syria’s Rural Damascus Governorate....
View ArticleThird hospital bombed in Yemen
According to our staff on the ground, at 9.20am one projectile impacted the Shiara Hospital in Razeh district, where Médecins Sans Frontières has been working since November 2015. Médecins Sans...
View ArticleJordan: Life after the Rubble
Syria’s war, now in its fifth year, continues unabated, with high levels of violence inflicted by all parties to the conflict, and devastating humanitarian consequences for the population caught in the...
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