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Orbinski, the director of Medecins sans Frontieres (MSF), painted a dire picture of the state of health around the world in his address...
...speech focused on what Orbinski called "structural forces that drive inequality in health care," and on MSF's mission to remove these barriers...
...MSF refuses to remain silent and morally neutral in the face of inhumanity," Orbinski said...
Once treated, a patient is likely to remain immune to the disease. But the price of stopping the epidemic, which amounted to more than $1 million a year poured in by MSF-Holland, has been high in human terms as well. Of 70 Nuer and Dinka nurses trained by Seaman and the other MSF doctors, more than 75% have come down with kala-azar themselves. Five lost children to the disease...
...capabilities. Seaman was criticized in some quarters for being too hands-on, for doing too much. Hesselink says Seaman faced a mini-revolt in 1995-96 when some colleagues insisted that she see patients only during normal working hours or risk being sent home on the next plane. An MSF bureaucrat who replaced Hesselink as MSF's country director briefly banished Seaman to languish in Nairobi, before the bureaucrat was herself recalled to Holland. McHarg, Seaman's current boss, appreciates her special talents but also sees the need to go beyond emergency medicine. "If we pull out of Sudan tomorrow...