Medicine on the Front Lines: An Interview with Shirakawa Yūko, Field Nurse for Doctors Without Borders

Shirakawa Yūko (right) in northern Yemen in 2015. The hospital where she worked had been partially destroyed by a bomb. (© MSF)

Shirakawa, in Iraq in 2017, helps care for a boy injured during fighting in eastern Mosul. (© MSF)

Shirakawa attends to an infant at a refugee camp in South Sudan in 2014. (© MSF)

Shirakawa talks with a girl being treated at a hospital in the eastern part of Mosul, Iraq, in 2017. (© MSF)

Shirakawa and local medical staff share a meal in Yemen in 2017. (© MSF)