A very different experience – Chandrika R Rao, Surgeon

October 1, 2011

I accepted my posting to Tari with a lot of apprehension. But the reality was quite unique. Tari seemed like a hill station – beautiful, lush green, unexplored, unspoilt and wild. It was a pleasure to snuggle into soft blankets...

Natural bounty and manmade poverty – Kalyansundari -MD

September 1, 2011

Natural bounty and manmade poverty: that sums up my experiences in Ivory Coast. This was my second mission with MSF, working as a Medical Doctor. Postconflict Abidjan, where my plane landed, was a wasteland of deserted streets and shut-down shops,...

First mission with MSF – Satish Devkota, MD

August 1, 2011

After working for almost a decade as a general physician in various public and private health organisations, I wanted to do something new. I had worked in a government hospital, on private projects supported by international donors, in the city,...

My first mission – Vitaly Pak

June 1, 2011

As I was getting ready for my mission to Papua New Guinea to work as a logistician, I had so many thoughts racing through my mind about the place, people, culture, work and how to cope living away from my...

Osh Memories – Aftab Ahmad, MD

March 1, 2011

Last June riots erupted in Osh, in southern Kyrgyzstan, killing at least 400 people and injuring thousands more. MSF teams provided medical care and assistance to many of the injured. xxxxxxxxxxxx helped one young man who escaped death by leaping...

My first mission in Africa – S. Y. Mulkipatil

February 1, 2011

The first time I heard about MSF was on 26 May 2009, when Dr Shanti Hegde, an experienced MSF volunteer from Karnataka, came to my institute, along with Farhat Mantoo from the human resources office, to give a presentation about...

AYITI – My first mission as an MSF Doctor – Kalyansundari Gomathinayagam, M.D.

January 1, 2011

A lot of expectations and excitement, starting right from the Preparation for Primary Departure (or PPD) training course: who is going where, through chitchats and Facebook; anticipating that next it will be my turn; being proposed for the Central African...

How an Indian doctor came to work with MSF – Kalyan Velivela, MD

October 1, 2010

MY FIRST MISSION WITH MSF Introduction My name is Kalyan Velivala. Let me tell you a bit about how I came to know about MSF. I had been working in India in the field of Internal medicine and in ICU’s...

My experience in Nigeria – Vladimir Pak

October 1, 2010

©MSF I worked with Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF) in Nigeria from January 2010 till October 2010 as a supply logistician. I am very proud that my first mission as an international staff was in Nigeria, which was where a group...

MSF Diary (experience from the field) May 2010 – SHAH Ameeta

May 1, 2010

“I think the surgeries and rehabilitating patients with vesicovaginal fistula was one of the greatest contributions MSF made to the people of Nigeria.” I worked at Jahun, a place in Jigawa state in Nigeria on my first assignment with MSF....

MSF Diary (experience from the field) April 2010 – Imtiaz Wadud

April 1, 2010

"I think the surgeries and rehabilitation patients with vesicovaginal fistula was one of the greatest contributions MSF made to the people of Nigeria." I worked at Jahun, a place in Jigawa state in Nigeria on my first assignment with MSF....

MSF Diary (experience from the field) March 2010 – Raju Kumar K

March 1, 2010

My first mission field experience - "Bush knife: the villain of the land": Papua New Guinea - The country is beautiful and the people are, in large part, very friendly and well-behaved. But between them there is a very strange...