No cash, no care
No cash, no care is the reality for many patients in many countries around the world and it is harming the most vulnerable people including...
Tag: MSF
Mental health treatment for prisoners in Zimbabwe
Fadumo Omar Mohamed joined Médecins Sans Frontières in 2013 as a Mental Health Activity Manager. Her latest assignment took her to Zimbabwe. This blog explains...
Dying of Aids in 2017
AIDS continues to kill: one million people died of the disease last year. The death rate remains shockingly high despite the availability of antiretroviral drugs, used...
Médecins Sans Frontières – a humanitarian imperative
For many years, I have worked with and supported an independent non-governmental organisation, Médecins Sans Frontières, (Doctors Without Borders) which is passionate about what it...
Emergency health surveillance in Uganda
As a public health physician who has previously worked with Medicins Sans Frontieres in Sierra Leone and Turkey, I’ve just finished an assignment setting up...
Doctors Adrift – job done
Doctors Adrift Ted Welman and Jack Faulkner have smashed the world record for the fastest pair to cross the Indian Ocean whilst raising vital funds...
Letter from Haiti
Dr Javid Abdelmoneim travelled to Haiti in 2010 to assist in the aftermath of the devastating earthquake. In the midst of the mayhem, a patient...
Doctors Adrift are world record holders!
Here at Hippocratic Post, we are absolutely delighted to hear that our doctor bloggers, Ted Welman and Jack Faulkner have broken the world record for...
Doctors adrift with seasickness
Seasickness is an occupational hazard when you are taking to the wave-swept ocean in a seven-metre long rowing boat. That's exactly what Jack Faulkner and...
If I don’t help mentally ill patients, who will?
Clinical Psychologist Emmerson Gono from MSF describes the challenges of working with mentally ill patients in a Zimbabwean prison. *Stephen is a 30 year old...
