*Disclaimer: this account includes descriptions of injuries and police violence, which may be distressing for some readers. It has been almost four years since my very first humanitarian medical expedition to Lesvos, and the haunting images I faced there will not lay to rest. It feels like it could have been yesterday: the chaotic din of human murmurings, interspersed by the barks of the gargantuan Greek riot police hiding behind their plastic shields. On the second night of

Since September 2018, Kitrinos Healthcare has been working seven days per week in Camp Moria, the largest and most notorious camp on the island of Lesvos. We are the only medical actors operating on weekends in both Moria and Kara Tepe refugee camps, so Saturdays and Sundays in our clinics are always especially busy. This weekend, our doctors attended to pregnant women, young children, and multiple complex and urgent cases. Every weekend we see patients with self-inflicted wo

I was asked by Dr Siyana Mahroof-Shaffi to assume the senior physician role for the Kitrinos clinic in Moria Camp in Lesvos for the time I was there, and I also served as a mentor for the younger physicians there. The Kitrinos clinic in Camp Moria does a fantastic job of using its very scarce resources and limited space to provide competent, compassionate medical care. The pharmacy is amazing, the support personnel and logistics were wonderful and responsive, and the clinic c