Window washers at a children’s hospital.
How awesome is this? The lengths we CAN go to just to make a sick child’s day better. Creative and good. :)
Wish we could do this in the pediatric ward, where I work.
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Photo: Francis Gatluak, one-time MSF patient, now the manager of the tuberculosis program at MSF’s hospital in Leer, South Sudan. South Sudan 2012 © John Stanmyer/VII Photo
The Patient Becomes the Healer
Three decades ago, when Francis Gatluak was a boy, civil war forced his family to flee their small village in Unity State, in the northern reaches of what is now South Sudan. He was diagnosed with kala azar, a disease that thrives in poor, unstable areas with limited health care.
Francis endured the difficult SSG treatment at MSF’s nearby camp, and recovered. Since he spoke some English, the staff asked him if he would stay and work with them as a translator. He did this for a few months, developing a desire to do more. “I started to learn about how I can help the patient,” he says. “If there are people who can give medication, I can also help to do the job, and help the community.”
Today, he is a nurse in his twenty-third year working with MSF. He has gone on MSF assignments in other African countries and recently returned to the Leer hospital, where he is now in charge of the tuberculosis ward. And he recently traveled to Washington, DC, to speak on the organization’s behalf when MSF was awarded the highly-esteemed 2012 J. William Fulbright Award for International Understanding.
Need all three for the upcoming months. Please let it be, God.
Romney Interrupts Debate To Clarify Only ‘Future People’ Would Lose Medicare (VIDEO) | Addicting Info
Future people? Basically Romney doesn’t give a shit about you if you’re old or too young to vote. So the next generation can just go fuck themselves, huh, Romney?
As a nurse and a young person, I’m deeply disturbed by this.
Uh, hello? Everyone and their mother deserves good healthcare. Period.
Romney: … not for current retirees.
Obama: So, [looks directly at T.V. audience] if you’re 54 or 55 you might want to listen, because this will affect you.
How Republicans want to give Americans good healthcare… by cutting the health budget.
Great. All the sick people and young children who may need health care thank you for not giving a shit, Romney.
Some days I just want to run and keep running until I’m exhausted and all the anxiety has left my body.
The End of a Brave Fight
It is with great sadness we report the death of Giblotte Nodjindo.After a long and brave fight against multidrug-resistant tuberculosis, Giblotte sadly succumbed to her illness in July this year. Giblotte was an integral part of MSF’s TB&ME project, a blog which gives a voice to our TB patients. Read her final post.
This week, we’re excited to be sending you updates from the 2012 International AIDS Conference in Washington DC.
We’re kicking the conference off today with a satellite session on global innovation. This and other events will be webcast live athttp://aids2012.msf.org/.
Last day. Know what’s going on.
