"A Long Way From Home"
CHINA | SUDAN | PERU

China:

In rural Gong Dong, China, New York doctor Ed Chai is training local health workers in western medical techniques that will complement their background in traditional Chinese medicine. Lack of western medical technology and supplies, however, is a constant frustration. When a patient arrives with a fever and severe brain damage, it stretches Ed’s ability to adjust.

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Sudan:

In Sudan, civil war and rampant infectious disease provide a strange setting to find a 60-year-old grandmother with an affectionate sense of humor. But Australian Marg Ward is an MSF nurse on her first mission, and her personality translates into a marvelous bedside manner when treating injured soldiers and sick mothers who have been separated from their children.

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Peru:

In the isolated northern reaches of Peru, a nasty disease, cutaneous leishmaniasis, is affecting indigenous groups who live many miles from the nearest hospital. MSF’s objective is to train local health workers to respond to the disease and effectively treat it, but as Biologist Eugenia Alvarez learns, this can mean a long, hard drive through the jungle to locate people who skip their treatment appointments. Dr. Milena Rosale, Eugenia’s coworker, tells the story of her refugee parents, who were helped by humanitarian aid agencies. For Milena, volunteering with MSF is a way to repay a debt incurred long before she was born.

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