Doctorw Without Borders And Human Rights Violations

All people are unique, individual and different. But fundamentally all humans on the planet have a fundamental human right to make the choices they want about their life and the way they live it. In the social care setting, this means the people we support too. However, although not providing support in a person centred way takes away and individual’s rights, it also means we are not meeting the needs if the people we support and it means there are no established boundaries of what the people we support need support with and what they can do for themselves.

Samantha Nutt, a medical doctor and co-founder of War Child, narrates her sixteen years of experience traveling in conflict zones struggling to help the most vulnerable targets, women and children. Her book “Damned Nations: Greed, Guns, Armies and Aid” strings that bind Western nations to war torn countries and simultaneously critiques the serve of militarism and misguided aid efforts, which she believes to exacerbate their mission in bringing relief from poverty and conflict. The author analyzes from her multiple trips to war zone nations of Congo, Iraq, Somalia and Afghanistan.

In Tracy Kidder’s book, Strength In What Remains, a refugee named Deogratias Niyizonkiza flees from the mass murders present in his home country, Burundi, and its neighboring country, Rwanda. When he was young, Deo witnessed the death of his friend, Clovis, from a treatable disease commonly known as Malaria. Ever since the tragic event, Deo wanted to improve his country’s healthcare system by building health clinics. Prior to accomplishing his goal, a civil war erupted, killing an estimated eight hundred thousand innocent civilians during a four-month period in 1994. Hardships like these interrupted his medical career even before he was able to leave Burundi. During the civil war, he was forced to survive in the corpse-filled forest, living

Introduction: The human rights were created in 1948 as a result of the experience of the second world war. These human rights meant that everyone has equality. Or though these human rights were created as a law not everyone sticks to them and many people actually end up going completely against them. Since this happens many people take social actions to gain human rights back. Two of the most important in my opinion are the March on Washington and the Montgomery bus boycott.

On Saturday, October 3 a hospital in Afghanistan was bombed by the US. This is a terrible thing because the those people in the hospital were civilians, and the US should not be bombing civilians. The bombing killed 12 staff and 10 patients, 3 of them apparently children. 37 other people had non-fatal casualties. The organization which owned the hospital, Doctors Without Borders, calls the bombing of the hospital a “war crime.” American general John Campbell says that he offers his “deepest condolences” to those who got hit.

For an organization whose motto is “speed saves lives,” it makes sense that there are a vast array of costs that come with the unique efficiency of MSF. After reading the section of Peter Redfield’s Life in Crisis entitled “Vital Mobility”, I was amazed by what MSF has been able to accomplish. All semester long I have learned of the intricacies of humanitarianism, how nothing is as simple as it seems. Often, I wonder why can’t it be simpler? Why do we let politics get in the way of good? Is there not a more effective way of helping distant strangers? Redfield’s focus on the mobility and efficiency of MSF seems to counteract how the rest of the humanitarian world works. No other organization can “[boast] of its ability to mobilize emergency aid to almost any part of the planet within forty-eight hours” (71). In no other way is foreign aid made to look so simple. MSF’s focus on efficiency, their

I was gifted a ticket, to anywhere. Past, present, future, anything my mind could imagine, this ticket could get me. Although there was a certain lure to watching the sunset on a beach in Jamaica, or spending copious amounts of money shopping in New York, I found myself using my once in a lifetime opportunity to travel to South Sudan working as a nurse for Doctors Without Borders. However once there I discovered my passion, and drive, and ambition that went beyond working in a hospital. My future awaited me.

The organization I choose is Doctors Without Borders my reasoning behind choosing this organization is because I like what they stand for when I was growing up I was always fond of helping people and before deciding to join the military I wanted to be a doctor and the goal was to help as many people as possible, but the people I wanted to help where not just Americans but also I wanted to help others in dangerous areas. The Doctors without borders organization embodies everything that I believe doctors should stand for which is helping everyone without discriminating against age, sex, race, or political affiliation no matter what they provide professional medical care to all patients.

The Doctors without Borders organization was founded in 1971 in Paris due to the efforts of French doctors that originally worked for the Red Cross in Biafra during its civil war. The doctors were frustrated by the treatment of the Nigerian Troops’ to aid workers. Thus, upon returning to France, some doctors broke their contracts with the Red Cross and began to provide humanitarian aid not in conjunction with the regulations of the Red Cross. The doctors were firm believers that, “all people should have the right to medical care and that the needs of these people supersede respect for national borders” (MSF, 2001). During the same time period, a group of French journalists were trying to focus the attention of the world to people who were struggling and dying from natural disasters in countries like Iran and Afghanistan. These journalists believed that French doctors should help out with these natural disasters. In conjunction with the journalists, the doctors formed Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF). Starting from 1971, they have had a huge impact in helping shape history. A major event in the history of Doctors without Borders was helping

“It’s simple really: go where the patients are. It seems obvious, but at the time it was a revolutionary concept because borders got in the way.” Says one of the founders of international organization, Doctors Without Borders. This unit was all about legacies, both good and bad. A legacy is what a person leaves and lots of times other people judge them by it. For this project the instructions were to pick a person or movement to research. Started during an extremely disastrous time, Doctors Without Borders helps people all over the world.

I was thrilled to discover that Doctors Without Borders is in need of more emergency physicians, which I found out about on doctorswithoutborders.org. I’ve always dreamt of traveling to different countries and helping underprivileged communities and this would be the perfect opportunity for me to do so. With my extensive skills and experience in emergency medicine and a passion for helping others, I am immensely qualified for this position.

Our solutions will help improve the lives of women and children in South Sudan. It’s the positive change that these areas desperately need. The female refugee camps are secured with guards to reduce the violence and other conflict these women face. We are inspiring and

Doctors Without Borders has been active in many African countries for years. In some cases, it has even been the only provider of health care in some areas of the continent. When the Ebola virus began to spread in some parts of Africa,

Although volunteers for Medecins Sans Frontiers are commonly stationed in various countries with a dire healthcare worker shortage, regions with refugee camps and internally displaced persons are also a focus for this organization. Refugees and internally displaced persons often come from war torn regions and live in close confines with poor sanitation and limited resources. These living situations become a breeding ground for diseases and other health issues like malnutrition, yet the individuals lack access to any sort of healthcare. The organization also responds quickly when regions suddenly experience an increased need for healthcare, for example in times of an epidemic or a natural disaster. Medecins Sans Frontiers’ involvement across its varying regions and their attempt to address a broad spectrum of healthcare truly show how altruistic the organization is to individuals regardless of race, gender, or religion.

TYPE A PROJECT--MSF is a neutral and impartial humanitarian organization that aims first and foremost to provide high-quality medical care to the people who need it the most. It does not promote the agenda of any country, political party, or religious faith, and, as such, endeavors to communicate its history, background, and capabilities to all parties in a given situation so that it may gain the necessary access to populations in need..On any given day, more than 30,000 doctors, nurses, logisticians, water-and-sanitation experts, administrators, and other qualified professionals working with MSF can be found providing medical care around the world..In 2012, MSF medical teams carried out more than 8.3 million outpatient consultations; delivered more than 185,000 babies; treated more than 1.6 million people for malaria; treated nearly 350,000 severely and moderately malnourished children; provided some 284,000 people living with HIV/AIDS with antiretroviral therapy; conducted more than 78,000 surgeries, and vaccinated 690,000 against measles and 496,000 against meningitis