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Humanitarian Assistance

Sandton Magazine: Heal the world

01 April 2012
MSF, Dr Prinitha Pillay, humanitarian, doctors without borders, Soth Africa
Dr Prinitha Pillay in South Sudan. Photo:Jens Windahl Pedersen
lt's true that dynamite comes in small packages. Dr Prinitha Pillar is a petite woman with a big heart, travelling to places like Sudan, Libya, Zimbabwe, Lesotho, India and Sierra Ieone to all those in need or medical care. She can spend a year at a time without hot water or a proper toilet, but it's a dedication she has made as a doctor and a South African, determined to LISC her voice to catalyse change in a big way too... ... Dr Prinitha Pillay says "Being a doctor, seeing patients with I IIV who are willing to stand up for what they need and what they want and to use that kind of civic agency, willing to make their own contribution instead of waiting for help, is what makes me proudly South African." Read full...
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MSF condemns attacks on aid workers and calls for release of abducted colleagues in Somalia

07 January 2012
Women in front of theTherapeutic Feeding Centre at the hospital MSF runs in Galc
Women in front of theTherapeutic Feeding Centre at the hospital MSF runs in Galcayo South.
Two Médecins Sans Frontières/Doctors Without Borders (MSF) colleagues, Phillipe Havet and Andrias Karel Keiluhuo, were killed last week by a gunman while implementing emergency assistance projects in Mogadishu. Three months ago, two MSF aid workers, Montserrat Serra and Blanca Thiebaut, were abducted in Dadaab refugee camp in Northern Kenya while carrying out emergency assistance for the Somali population.   These attacks on aid workers must be condemned in the strongest of terms. They put in jeopardy life-saving medical projects that are already far from adequate in addressing the scope of the medical needs of the Somali population.   MSF is confronting the difficult dilemma of working in a context like Somalia...
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South Sudan: Thousands of civilians fleeing for their lives with no aid as MSF medical facilities are looted and damaged in conflict

03 January 2012
Pibor, South Sudan, violence, humanitarian access.
The MSF primary health care hospital in Pibor County, which was destroyed in the recent violence. Liang Zi/MSF
Juba / Brussels - Renewed inter-communal violence in Jonglei State, South Sudan, has forced thousands of families to flee into the bush. Two Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF) medical facilities have been targeted and the independent medical humanitarian organisation has had to temporarily suspend its much needed medical activities in Pibor County. The MSF primary health care hospital in Pibor County, which was destroyed in the recent violence. Liang Zi/MSF “Thousands of people have fled for their lives in Lekongole and Pibor in the last week and are now hiding in the bush, frightened for their lives”, said Parthesarathy Rajendran, MSF head of mission in South Sudan....
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