Theresa Chan is a doctor from the U.S. who has been working in an MSF / Doctors without Borders clinic in Cambodia. As she comes to the end of her posting, an unexpected conversation sends her to a new country and a very different project ...

At the end of September my medical coordinator asked me if I’d be willing to leave Cambodia early to work with MSF’s emergency response to the Rohingya crisis in Bangladesh.

“Sure, sign me up,” I said, not really believing anything would come of it.

 

Now — six weeks, 83 emails, 5 Skype conversations, and 15 days of nail-biting suspense about my visa status later — I am in Cox’s Bazar, starting work as an outreach medical doctor in the Balukhali 2 settlement of the sprawling Rohingya refugee camp. Looking back, the funny thing is I had an image of myself getting pulled away from Cambodia to work with the Rohingya, so maybe there is an element of predestiny at work in this change.

Read the full article about Theresa's experience working at Doctors without Borders in Cambodia at MSF.org.