Syrian doctors upskilled to screen and treat women with cervical cancer
Dr Saladin Sawan, Consultant Surgeon in Gynaecological Oncology and one of our faculty trainers, recently returned from a surgical mission in Idlib, Syria, upskilling 41...
Tag: Call of Duty
Our action in response to the Israel-Gaza war
Our action in response to the Israel-Gaza war. As a humanitarian organisation delivering surgical training to doctors in regions affected by conflict and catastrophe, we...
Memorial sculpture honouring mesothelioma patients in the Armed Forces unveiled
A major stone sculpture honouring all serving and veteran members of the British Armed Forces with the asbestos-related cancer, mesothelioma, has been unveiled. The memorial...
80 surgeons and anaesthetists upskilled in Kyiv, Ukraine
Our new Chief Operating Officer, Tim Law, recently returned from his first mission. Tim supported our trainers to deliver two surgical training courses in Kyiv....
Barnacles and sharks
We are now rowing the first few miles of our 3000 mile voyage across the Indian ocean from the west coast of Australia to Mauritius,...
Life in Chad with MSF
As-salamu alaykum! ("May peace be upon you" in Arabic). This is the common greeting heard here in Bokoro, a town about 300 km east of...
A lost generation – working with young refugees in Greece
Conor Kenny is a doctor who has recently returned from Greece. He began his assignment working at Idomeni, a transit camp for refugees on the...
Better surgery for landmine victims
Landmines are a deadly legacy of many past and present conflicts and still kill around 15-20,000 people around the world every year and maim many more....
A checklist for life
'When it comes to safety for patients in the operating theatre, it’s not always the ‘big spends’ that make the biggest difference. For instance, the...
A Kalashnikov crisis in Yemen
I have just returned from my first mission with Medicins Sans Frontieres in the Yemen and I can definitely say it was a life-changing experience. I was...
