In 2017, he joined MSF and went on his first mission. She was 33 years old. Since then, she has participated in health care projects in different places in armed conflict. He went to Sudan, after the civil unrest. He has also been to Iraq and Yemen three times.
In addition to the preparation that MSF gives her, María Guadalupe knows how to work with a lack of supplies and that experience came from studying in Mexico, where the health system faces lags and sometimes shortages of drugs and other health materials.
“Unfortunately, in our hospitals, every year that passes, every six-year term that passes, we have fewer resources, fewer supplies, and you have to deal with offering the same or better quality with the few supplies you have, and that makes you a more skilled person,” he says. .
(Courtesy of MSF-BELGIUM / Andrii Ovod)
Some of their colleagues from countries with greater resources struggle when they lack an item in war zones. “They say no, I can’t work if I don’t have this specifically.” But María Guadalupe knows how to serve with quality even if there are fewer resources.
His stay on the MSF medicalized train reminded him of the days when he was on duty in hospitals in Mexico.
“It’s like being in the hospital, like being on duty for many hours, where you keep an eye on the patients, even if you’re not by their side, but you keep thinking: ‘The patient in such a bed needed me to check his blood pressure. The patient in such a bed was very frightened.’ So, sleeping is just sleeping, because you are aware that these patients are well, comfortable and that they are the ones who can sleep, ”he says.
