Right now, MSF is working in Haiti. They have performed many surgeries, but there are still patients waiting to have surgery, as well as patients needing post-operative care.
MSF is not only working in hospitals/makeshift operating rooms, even their inflatable hospital, but they have gone mobile as well, searching out people who need life-saving treatment or whose conditions could quickly go downhill. Many of the Haitian volunteers working in MSF, such as Dr. Philippe Brouard, a surgeon, and Charles Joseph, a social worker, have lost family and friends, but still they continue to work to save lives and give help where it is needed. Click the link to see how Haitian staff are determined to help.
You can help Doctors Without Borders/MSF. You can volunteer, or you can donate in more ways than one. Right now they are urgently needing OR nurses, obstetricians/gynecologists, HIV/AIDS and TB specialists, and anesthesiologists/nurse-anesthetists, as well as nurse-midwives/certified midwives. MSF staff know that they are going into a field that involves many elements of danger, and they know that they are working in a humanitarian organization, receiving a very modest monthly salary. You can find out more of what it takes to volunteer, as well as the benefits you would receive here. MSF has many benefit concerts/fundraising events that you can check out, as well. Publications also exist to help keep you up to date on what they are doing. You can follow them on Facebook and Twitter.
How can you help? How can you shine your light?
To read more from Mel, visit her blog at Real Heart Prints.
