Medical Care for Mothers and Babies in Columbia

Doctors Without Borders/ Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF)'s Photos

"Patients come from a variety of backgrounds: most people in the area are Afro-Colombian, but the hospital also serves indigenous groups who often live far away in remote communities deep in the rainforest."

Colombia 2010 © Mads Nissen

Medical Care for Mothers and Babies in Columbia

nurse from a Quibdo suburb called Villa de Españia in Columbia 2010

"Many of the hospital's patients come from areas like this, a Quibdo suburb called Villa de Españia. The majority of people who live here are displaced, called "desplazados".  This nurse is also from the neighborhood." Colombia 2010 © Mads Nissen

Medical Care for Mothers and Babies in Columbia nurse & patient

"A patient and a nurse look out from one of the hospital's balconies. Linens dry outside not far from the river, which is the only link to many of the isolated communities the hospital serves." Colombia 2010 © Mads Nissen

From the album:

Colombia: Improving Medical Care for Mothers and Babies by Doctors Without Borders/ Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF)