GHLC at JHU: Mr. Brigg Reilley

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Mr. Brigg Rielley presents on Doctors Without Borders

Doctors Without Borders:

Help people in troubled areas

Key rules:

1. Be neutral (especially in warzones)

2. Impartiality - see everyone who needs treatment (even if they are combatants)

3. Independence - act without government help to prevent government interference

MSF active in 72 countries

Responding to:

1. Armed conflict

    Cooperate with the person in charge - prevent conflict

    Have multiple vehicles

    Local drivers

2. Environmental disasters

    Be there early

    It disrupts existing efforts

3. Exclusion from healthcare

    Helping people who can't get help

4. Forced displacement

    Gangs

    Violence

    Things like people on US border

    Prevent trauma

5. Epidemics

    Vaccination

    Treatment

How MSF responds

1. Primary clinics

2. Mobile clinics - motorcycles, boats

    You are out all day, and it takes a while to get back - that means you treat as many as possible, even if there is untreatable, dangerously ill person

3. Hospital support

4. Surgery

5. Vaccination

6. Nutritional support

    Develop portable food packets

7. Maternal health

8. Water/sanitation

9. Prevention

10. Pre-developed kits that can be custom-ordered