Richard Feidler

And then people, you know, they listen and they give you a few minutes and then, you know, they kind of just go, yeah, yeah.

We got a new fridge last week.

But the problem is you don't want to be that sanctimonious asshole as well at dinner tables just being like, you know, for the price of this meal, I think we should all just pause and think about it.

You know, kids are starving.

You don't want to be that guy.

I mean, my introduction, my flight into Sudan, I think just set the tone for what it was going to be like for me.

We got diverted in a little MSF plane as we were flying into my project from Kenya, or the project I was going to be in, I should say.

But we got diverted and we landed on this dirt runway in another community because there was someone critically injured and they wanted to take him to the bigger project I was going to with a surgeon.

And we landed and there were just these armed guys on the side of the runway blurring past the aircraft.

And then the aircraft door opened and these guys quickly bundled in a young man who'd been shot in the neck.

He was still very much alive, but had a really bad neck injury with bandages loosely applied.

And they bundled him in and then we just turned around, took off and went off.

And that was my first two minutes on the ground in South Sudan.

It's...

It's difficult because you've got all the other conditions, the malaria, the TB, the HIV.

And then on top of that, you've got this constant kind of instability in the background where you don't know when the project's going to have to be evacuated or when a truckload of critically wounded people are just going to arrive.

And then, of course, you know, there's a staff safety issue in the background as well.

It's very difficult because the organizations, I mean, the safety is really predicated on being neutral and taking care of everyone.

So our safety isn't really on big fences and armed security guards.

So really anyone in that context could wander into the hospital and often did.