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09/06/2005 11:34:18 AM · #1 |
From Medicins Sans Frontieres' (Doctors Without Borders)...The rest of the world:
Top Ten Under-Reported Stories of 2004 |
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09/06/2005 11:52:36 AM · #2 |
This got moved to rant?
Oh my...why oh why oh why? |
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09/06/2005 12:07:58 PM · #3 |
Anyone? I feel kind of lonely here, I'd love to hear an explanation from the moderator that felt it wise to move this to rant.
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09/06/2005 12:12:04 PM · #4 |
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09/06/2005 12:18:12 PM · #5 |
doesn't make sense to me... ?
Either way, great link. My cousin works for MSF from time to time so I am lucky to be aquainted with the great work they do! |
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09/06/2005 12:19:40 PM · #6 |
Originally posted by oOWonderBreadOo:
doesn't make sense to me... ?
Either way, great link. My cousin works for MSF from time to time so I am lucky to be aquainted with the great work they do! |
Neat, what sort of work does your cousin do?
The only thing I can think of is if I accidently started the thread in Rant instead of General Discussion...but I really didn't think that was the case.
Either way, could this thread be moved to "General Discussion" or a reason given for it's "rant" status? |
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09/06/2005 12:30:37 PM · #7 |
Usually if they move a thread to another section they will post the reason why. If they didn't post a reason you probably made a mistake.
Good link. |
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09/06/2005 12:33:14 PM · #8 |
I hope so.
Edit: Thanks, mods!
Message edited by author 2005-09-06 12:33:40. |
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09/06/2005 12:35:53 PM · #9 |
She's a nurse and the last time she was with MSF was in April.
She went to Angola for the hemoragic Marburg outbreak. Pretty scary stuff but she's home safe & sound now...
here's a clip from a few of her e-mails (sorry they are long but I know I was so interested when she wrote them to me I even forwarded this to many of my friends...)
April-
they weren't prepared so they don't know how many people
are dying, nosocomial spread already had started and
the population is thinking that MSF is killing the
people, we are eating their hearts etc. They
obviously don't get it, but if you saw the way we have
to dress (in spacesuits) in addition to the isolation
of the patient and not allowing family visits and then
taking the body in the back of a truck with astronauts
and not allowing the family at the cemetery, I too
would be a little suspicious.
and later...
At the hospital in Uige, 20 of their staff
died. Now with those numbers you would think that
they would learn how to protect themselves wouldn't
you? So we identified rooms in the 180 hospital
that we could use to isolate a patient should one
present, and they did. It was a fight to get them out
of the ER because the Angolan doctor and/or admin.
didn't agree with the diagnosis and did not want to
scare the population. After several weeks of working
in this hospital the admin. decided they wanted us out
and told us to leave, oh, and also told the population
that we were killing people. Also right around that
time, there was an altercation involving a gun and a
colleauge and our Head of Mission immediately pulled
us out. That Monday was the last day I went to the
hospital. |
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