How are Canadians involved in the organization, Doctors Without Borders?
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Doctors Without Borders focuses on providing medical assistance to victims of armed conflict, people in areas affected by infectious disease, victims of natural or man-made disasters, and those living in areas without established health care. Disaster response projects are much shorter than long-term medical projects combating diseases such as cholera, HIV/AIDS, tuberculosis and tropical diseases. Finally, MSF’s advocacy arm raises ongoing public awareness on issues of human abuse and populations in danger.
MSF Canada is 1 of 20 national MSF offices. Since 2013, Canadian Dr. Joanne Liu has been the president of MSF International. In F2018, MSF provided 11,218,700 outpatient consultations, performed 104,700 major surgeries, assisted 309,500 births, and provided 404,700 individual mental health consultations. As of January 2019, MSF Canada had 179 field workers including 92 medical personnel such as doctors, nurses, and midwives, as well as 87 non-medical personnel such as administrators, engineers, and logisticians.
