African winter: In South Sudan with Doctors Without Borders
"So do I have malaria or not?" This is an authentic account from South Sudan, the world's youngest nation, whose territory has been plagued by armed conflict for decades.
At the beginning of 2017, when the country was hit by a wave of critical food shortages, surgeon Tomáš Šebek went on a Doctors Without Borders mission to places where infectious and tropical diseases thrive. Having experienced trauma surgery in the cradle of voodoo in Haiti and war medicine in northern Afghanistan, he and his colleagues find themselves in an environment where the traditional healer and his alternative approach to the patient are far more respected than the Western-trained physician.
Compared to fixing fractures with paper or pouring boiling water on them, the surgical team's reputation in the eyes of the locals can only be raised by performing the first surgery on the brain of a South Sudanese teenager in the absolute wasteland surrounding the hospital in Agok. Tomáš Šebek's writings, accompanied by captivating photographs, present a unique view of places that you will not learn about in the media.
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