Anthony Fong

Anthony Fong is a physician volunteer with Canadian Medical Assistance Teams, a nonprofit disaster relief organization that provides medical aid to Ukrainian refugees and internally displaced people. A clinical assistant professor on the faculty of medicine at the University of British Columbia, Dr. Fong is also a fellow in global journalism at the Dalla Lana School of Public Health at the University of Toronto. 

 

Refugees from the Azovstal steel plant in Mariupol arrive at a registration and humanitarian aid center for internally displaced people amid Russia's ongoing war in Ukraine, in Zaporizhzhia, Ukraine, on May 8, 2022.
Migration

The Cat-and-Mouse Game of Providing Health Care in Ukraine's Conflict Zone

by Anthony Fong

A Canadian physician reflects on his recent emergency medicine stint along the Ukrainian-Polish border