Dr Deirdre Lynch from Dundalk
A LOCAL GP is currently volunteering in South Sudan with Doctors Without Borders, helping to provide life-saving treatment for thousands of refugees.
Dr Deirdre Lynch (pictured above) is based in the Batil camp, where 38,000 people have sought refuge from fighting and violence in neighbouring Sudan.
To mark World Refugee Day, Deirdre – who is also a consultant radiologist in Our Lady of Lourdes Hospital in Drogheda – wrote a column in The Irish Times earlier this week describing her experiences.
You can read her account of things here.
Talk of the Town 