Zitat des Tages von Joanne Liu:
I worked in Syria on the front lines, and you hear the plane, you hear the shell is dropping, you realize it's not on you - 'Good' - and then you see the patients coming in and take care of them. And then you have down time. With Ebola, it seems there's no down time. It seems you're always at the front line; you're always exposed.
I don't think you just can put people on the starting block and then wait... for the next Ebola-like epidemic. I think that you need somehow a small-capacity response who's going to run the first few kilometers of the marathon.
The unspoken thing, the elephant in the room, is the war against terrorism, it's tainting everything.
When I was young, and I wouldn't eat, my parents would say, 'Eat, or else you're going to become a little Biafran.'
I always say now it's the indifference that kills patients in the field and different populations. We have to break our indifference towards the suffering of people elsewhere.
When I was 13, I read 'Et la paix dans le monde, Docteur?' a physician's account of working with Medecins Sans Fontieres during the Soviet presence in Afghanistan. It was this book that inspired me to work for MSF.
What are individuals in wars today? Expendable commodities, dead or alive.
You need a balance in life. You just cannot be all the time on an adrenalin peak. You need to recharge.
Our humanitarian aid system is sick and needs to be fixed. It needs to get a reality check and get back humanity.
