Médecins Sans Frontierès

For Dr Yashoda Manickchund, hearing the sound of rapid gunfire and seeing gunshot wounds is all in a day's work. Last year, the 27-year-old physician from Durban joined Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF) or Doctors Without Borders - an international nongovernmental humanitarian organisation... Five months later, she was sent on her first mission to Timergara, on the north-western border of Pakistan, neighbouring Afghanistan. Read full article