The Korea Times
In the summer of 2014, I received a message from Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF) calling on former fieldworkers to volunteer for the Ebola response in West Africa. The call went out to MSF colleagues around the world — and, like me, many responded. Among them were fieldworkers from MSF Korea. They joined a global effort built on decades of experience responding to Ebola, a disease that repeatedly strikes in low-resource, remote and often conflict-affected settings, hitting hardest those communities with the fewest resources and the least access to health care. MSF never works alone in these crises. It is always part of a broader coalition of actors, drawing on expertise and solidarity from across borders. Korean staff have been part of that effort — respected, capable and committed to saving lives under the most challenging conditions. Today, we are facing another Ebola outbreak with the potential to escalate into a major crisis. But this time, no Korean doctors, nurses, epidemiologists or logisticians will be there. Not because they are unwilling, but because they are unable. A b
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