Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF), also know as Doctors Without Borders, have assigned me to photograph two projects in Colombia.
First, I’m visiting is a maternity hospital in the city of Quibdo. For two years MSF have been running the hospital, training the staff, suppling new equipment and so on. Now it’s been handed back to the local government.
Second project is in the province of Arauca. For a long time Arauca have been a battle zone with regular fights between Government troops, guerilla groups such as FARC-EP and other armed groups of the civil war in Colombia. As a result it’s often very complicated to access and give medical attention to patients. In mobile clinics MSF visits vulnerable communities and also scan and treat for Chagas-disease (as seen on picture above).