Working in war zones: Straight talking from a pharmacist on the front line

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Working in war zones: Straight talking from a pharmacist on the front line

Kutupalong Refugee Camp. Photo: John Owens on Wikimedia Commons
One of the Rohingya camps in Cox’s Bazar, Bangladesh. Ms Straight spent three months in the camps setting up a COVID-19 treatment centre. Photo: John Owens on Wikimedia Commons

From near-miss air strikes and suicide bombers to ransacked health clinics, no two days are the same for New Zealand pharmacist Petra Straight who works for Save the Children. She talks to Anna Lee

“Honestly, it wasn’t an overly exciting year,” claims New Zealand pharmacist Petra Straight, on what, to anyone else, would have been a big year.