Word: hesselink
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...such massive size could be handled with no hospitals in the area. "We were going to be dealing with thousands of patients at a time, and we didn't know if it would be possible to do this out in the open and under a tree," says Johan Hesselink, who headed MSF-Holland's southern Sudan operations during that period...
There were other crises. Hesselink had just taken off at sunset from the small airstrip at Nimne, not far from Duar, when he got a radio call from Seaman asking him to return and pick up a woman having complications in childbirth. "I told her it was crazy. It was too late. We would crash," says Hesselink. "She made me do it anyway." After picking up the woman and Seaman in Nimne, Hesselink flew in the dark to Ler, where there was better equipment. As the plane approached the field, the Nuer lit fires along the runway. After being treated...
...crisis beginning to come under control, relief agencies headquartered in Nairobi began to rethink their role in Sudan, favoring a hands-off approach aimed at getting the Sudanese to develop their own medical capabilities. Seaman was criticized in some quarters for being too hands-on, for doing too much. Hesselink says Seaman faced a mini-revolt in 1995-96 when some colleagues insisted that she see patients only during normal working hours or risk being sent home on the next plane. An MSF bureaucrat who replaced Hesselink as MSF's country director briefly banished Seaman to languish in Nairobi, before...
...Duar area, Johan Hesselink says, "We used to fly over here, and there were no tukuls [huts]. Now there are tukuls everywhere. These people have come back because they see a future. That is what life is about." That is no small achievement for an unassuming American girl from Moscow, Idaho...
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