Photos: Honoring nurses and midwives

Nurse Patricia Carrick (left) at work with MSF in 2010 in Agok, a town in the disputed border region between South Sudan and Sudan.

© MSF

Emmily Mkumba’s advanced cancer makes it too difficult for her to sit or lie on her back. She rests on her stomach for a consultation with Christopher Chalunda, an MSF palliative care nurse in Blantyre, Malawi.

Malawi 2020 © Francesco Segoni/MSF

Malawi 2019 © Isabel Corthier/MSF

MSF nurse Jerwin Capuras holds one of the youngest patients in the intensive care unit of MSF’s pediatric hospital in Kenema, Sierra Leone.

Sierra Leone 2020 © Vincenzo Livieri/MSF

MSF nurse Hala Hussein works in the Burj al-Barajneh refugee camp in Lebanon, where she was born and raised.

Lebanon 2020 © Diego Ibarra Sánchez

MSF nurse and midwife Hamdi Abdi Osman, nurse aid Fartun Adan Dahir, and nutrition assistant Asad Doll Ali stand together at a morning meeting at an MSF project in the Somali region of Ethiopia.

Ethiopia 2019 © Susanne Doettling

Lelise Bultoma is MSF’s nursing activity manager in Kule refugee camp in the Gambella region of Ethiopia.

Ethiopia 2019 © Susanne Doettling/MSF

Bangladesh 2020 © Daniella Ritzau-Reid/MSF

MSF nurse Charline Vincent consults with a patient during a mobile clinic at Porte de la Villette, France.

France 2020 © Agnes Varraine-Leca/MSF

Louise is the sexual health nurse at the MSF-supported hospital in Kigulube, South Kivu, Democratic Republic of Congo.

Democratic Republic of Congo 2020 © Davide Scalenghe/MSF

MSF staffer Ana Paola Barba tends to a young patient in the neonatology unit of the MSF hospital in Agok, South Sudan.

South Sudan 2019 © Laurence Hoenig/MSF

MSF nursing care provider John Malish Bismark stands with the bicycle he uses to reach remote communities in Mundri, in the Equatoria region of South Sudan.

South Sudan 2019 © Tom Casey/ MSF