Posted on 30 August, 2012
"Medical Outreach in Jordan Tends to Its Neighbors’ Wounded"
Read this report from the New York Times on Doctors Without Borders’ teams treating victims of Syria conflict in a Jordan hospital.
Learn more about the situation in Syria.
If you missed our Doctors Without Borders South Sudan webcast last night, the full recording is here.
This is…what we’re here for: responding to the most urgent and immediate medical needs. It is incredible what we have been able to achieve, but it’s not enough. There is always something more that can be done, and we have to fight to make sure these people have what they need, not just to survive, but to give them dignity, give them quality of life, make sure that they can maintain the spirit that they have.
Helen Ottens-Patterson, from the United Kingdom, is a nurse and Doctors Without Borders medical coordinator in Upper Nile State’s Maban County, South Sudan.
Here she speaks about the overwhelming situation of refugees in South Sudan.