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On the 40th anniversary of his birth, Doctors Without Borders (MSF) today launched Tuesday 17 April, at the Faculty of Law of Mercy Campus of the University of Murcia, the exhibition "40 Years of Independent Humanitarian Action" a photographic exhibition that reviews the history of the organization and the principles that have guided his work throughout his career.
The exhibit will be displayed in the Cloister of the Faculty of Law until next April 30 and from 2 to 25 May at the Faculty of Medicine.
This afternoon, at 19 pm, also in the Chamber of the Faculty of Arts, will hold a meeting that will talk titled: "Doctors Without Borders. 40 years of Independent Humanitarian Action".
Organizers: Doctors Without Borders and Cultural Service of the University of Murcia.
Collaboration: Faculty of Medicine and School of Nursing.
The origins of Doctors Without Borders
As the exhibition explains, MSF was born in December of 1971 by a group of doctors and journalists, frustrated about because the mandate of the organization they worked prevented them from testifying about the genocide of the Ibo in Biafra (Nigeria , 1968), others by the inefficiency with which they attended to the victims of the floods of 1970 in East Pakistan (now Bangladesh).
Advocated an independent medical action political or economic interests, which acudiera where the victims of emergencies required it to provide assistance and testimony.
Today, MSF is one of the leading independent humanitarian organizations in the world and, according to its makers, "unfortunately has little to celebrate, as the crises currently responding very reminiscent of the first emergency in the organization intervened ago 40 years. "
In these crises, and from the work of MSF staff in response to those who suffered witnessed renowned photographers and agencies who contributed their work to combat political and media forget that takes decades to exact a high price in human lives and suffering in worldwide.
A global organization with five million members
A total of 7,300,000 medical consultations in 60 countries, attended by 27,650 workers were possible in 2010 thanks to Doctors Without Borders, 362,000 inpatients, 58,000 surgeries, 370,000 acutely malnourished children served, antrirretroviral therapy to 184,000 people affected HIV / AIDS, 4.5 million people treated for measles, meningitis 1'3 ..., are the impressive data that meets an organization now 40 years old and not have been possible without the support of the 5 million members, 600,000 of them in Spain, including 8,580 in the Region of Murcia.
Presentation in the House of Arts
The exhibition was inaugurated on Tuesday in a press conference held after the Conference Hall of the Faculty of Arts at 10 am at the Mercedes Farias who spoke Batlle (Vice Chancellor of University Extension and eGovernment) Mila Font Jimenez ( MSF Delegate for the Region of Murcia) Isidro Antonio Carrion (MSF Expatriate Nurse), D.
Joaquín García-They (Dean of the Faculty of Medicine) and David Armero Barranco (Dean of the Faculty of Nursing).
According to the Dean of Medicine "More and more students decide to pursue such initiatives."
"We want to encourage, he added, these vocations among students and that more and more those who choose this path."
For its part, the rector said, "One of the obligations of the University of Murcia is to transmit values. And the health professions are exercised by very delivered, and MSF is a paradigmatic example," adding that "the solidarity spirit that presided over this organization is maintained from the beginning: help without fanfare and without expecting anything in return. "
Meanwhile, Mila Font, Murcia MSF delegate said that "it is increasingly difficult our work, because it is interpreted that we are supporting the health of the other side."
"Also, he added, because the organization is seen as a player in the North, so we want to make clear that our organization is independent and works with the membership fees."
After the press conference, Mila Font said "Some of the crises in which MSF intervenes spent decades now open, as the conflicts in Somalia or Afghanistan, but treatable killer diseases like AIDS and malaria are entrenched, and international community continues to show signs of inefficiency in responding to natural disasters, so unfortunately independent humanitarian aid is needed now more than ever. "
Source: UMU
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