From Clare to Niger - Dr. Fergus Glynn

Dr. Fergus Glynn's Blog from Niger.


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Dr. Fergus Glynn has just begun his first MSF mission in eastern Niger at a CRENI, the French acronym for a therapeutic feeding centre, where he is treating severely malnourished children up to 5 years old. Originally from Co. Meath, Dr. Glynn worked as a GP in Co. Clare prior to working with MSF.


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"There is a growing consensus that we’re witnessing the first stirrings of the long predicted and much discussed food crisis that has occupied most of the waking (and sleeping) hours of virtually everybody in the NGO community in Niger since it became apparent that the harvest of 2009 had been an undiluted disaster."

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"Last year MSF treated 45,000 kids in our nutritional programmes in this region of Niger alone. Moustapha and his mother’s story is just one of thousands of similar cases of lives hanging in the balance"



Post No 3


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 "Today was energising, really useful and strangely humbling all at the same time."

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"I have rarely had the pleasure of meeting , not to mind working, so closely every day with someone so charming and compassionate, big-smiling  and soft-hearted and so passionately dedicated to his work"

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Fergus Glynn
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"Despite having little and what little they have being so uncertain, I am humbled everyday by their quiet dignity, patience, strength and the joy they clearly find in every single human exchange."
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