MSF divides hospital to keep rivals at peace

An incident that stands out in Catherine Moody’s memory is when she was volunteering in Darfur in Sudan.

“We were working in makeshift clinics in mobile camps for internally displaced people (IDPs) for nomadic people when intense fighting broke out between two different tribes,” she explained.

“There were people on the battlefield and no one was helping them.” The MSF team then approached the police and asked for help to get the injured to hospital.

“In the end, we had to divide the makeshift hospital in two parts. We kept the injured people from both tribes as far as we could because even if they saw each other, they would end up fighting but this strategy worked quite well,” she said.