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Chris Bird

Dr Chris Bird is a paediatrician and aid worker for Médecins Sans Frontières, blogging from a hospital in Lulimba, a small town in the Democratic Republic of Congo. Before studying medicine, Chris was a Reuters and Guardian journalist reporting for 10 years from the former Soviet Union and Yugoslavia

July 2012

  • MDG : DRC

    Poverty matters blog
    Measles vaccines by motorbike help Congolese children

    Chris Bird: Doctors staged Operation Easy Rider to deliver vaccines to children in a remote area of the Democratic Republic of the Congo as fast as possible

April 2012

  • MDG : Malaria in DRC

    Poverty matters blog
    Timely malaria treatment a matter of life and death for Congolese children

  • MDG : DRC : MSF MD Chris Bird at Lulimba Hospital, Democratic Republic of Congo

    Global development voices
    The hard road to healthcare for eastern Congo's poor

February 2012

  • MDG: Dr Chris Bird (L) and a nurse show a mother a record of her child's weight gain, DRC

    Poverty matters blog
    The silent cost of child malnutrition in the Democratic Republic of the Congo

    Chris Bird: Despite its lush surroundings, many children inside the MSF hospital tent in South Kivu are dying from preventable illnesses due to malnutrition caused by years of war and insecurity

January 2012

  • People queue outside a health centre in the Democratic Republic of the Congo

    Poverty matters blog
    Battling through the malaria season in the Democratic Republic of the Congo

  • An MSF nurse carries a baby suffering from malnutrition in the Democratic Republic of the Congo

    Global development voices
    A long journey to deliver precious medicine in eastern Congo

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