Last Saturday, Doctors Without Borders (MSF) issued a statement unlike any it has made since it was founded more than half a century ago in Paris. Since then, the red and white MSF logo has served as a sign of protection and promise, even in the darkest places.
In all the wars and conflicts I have worked in MSF has earned my deepest respect. Its doctors and staff are always the first to arrive and the last to leave. It operates under bombardment, amid power cuts and in the most difficult wartime conditions. I’ve seen MSF doctors stand up to child soldiers who barged into clinics with assault rifles, and demand respect for their patients. I’ve seen doctors work for days doing amputations on children without rest.
MSF’s clinics in Sudan, Ukraine, Darfur and more than 75 countries worldwide bring crucial care to the most desperate people. In 1999, it quite rightly won the Nobel Peace Prize. Back then, the Nobel actually meant something.
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