Sask health professionals helping abroad with Doctors Without Borders -Regina Leader Post

August 22, 2016

Doria Melville has worked in difficult conditions, but nothing compares to South Sudan.

“It’s unlike anything you’ve done before, even if you think you’re well prepared,” says Melville, a registered nurse from Saskatoon, currently in training to be a pediatric nurse.

Melville volunteered with Médecins Sans Frontières/Doctors Without Borders (MSF) from August to December 2013 in Leer, South Sudan. She was the nurse manager of the in-patient department at a hospital there.

“It was the best and most challenging thing I’ve done in my life,” she says.

She faced similar conditions working on First Nations in Northern Saskatchewan, but in South Sudan, the problems were on a much larger scale, she says.

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