Doctors Without Borders Case Study

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The Doctors With Impartiality Destroyed Hospitals: South Sudan Story Luckily, where we live, we don’t have to worry about being forced to flee out of your home in the middle of the night and not being able to find medical help. Here, we are able to find hospitals whenever we need it. There are hospitals all around us, we don’t have to worry about finding help. That is not true for many countries outside of the United States (South). Sadly, many countries don’t have the medical care we have in the United States. South Sudan has been in major conflict for over three year. This violent engagement is so horrible that it isn’t safe for them to stay so they have to flee. Usually, as they are trying to flee they get severely injured by the battlefield …show more content…

They help people no matter what. They are, “Independent. Neutral. Impartial” so, they help anybody that needs help mentally and physically (South). Bernard Kouchner was the founder of Doctors Without Borders. Their first project took place in Nigeria in 1971. Bernard started this organization because he believed all people should have health care no matter what. Doctors Without Borders says that, “Three hundred volunteers made up the organisation when it was founded: doctors, nurses and other staff, including the 13 founding doctors and journalists” (msf). This organization has gotten a lot better at helping people immediately …show more content…

This organization is very important because they are saving people’s lives everyday, and doesn’t everyone deserve the access to medical care? Doctors Without Borders has helped with many specific outbreaks of diseases. One example is the ebola outbreak, when there was an ebola outbreak, Doctors Without Borders made special ebola kits so they could help in the best way possible. Doctors Without Borders helped many people with ebola they, “treated hundreds of people with the disease and helped to contain numerous life-threatening epidemics” (Ebola). Another example is when big fires happen they go to that place and bring burn kits and help heal the burns. Doctors Without Borders has helped in many different places. On the map you can see that all the red arrows are places they have helped it is from msf.com. In each of those places they helped many people with a very broad variety of of problems. In all this organization is beneficial for the

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