Geitaoui Hospital’s Medical Director, Dr El Khalil described how medical staff carried patients out of destroyed wards in their arms in complete darkness, down six flights of stairs, as the electrical power had been blown out. ...
On Tuesday evening at 6pm a warehouse at the Beirut Port, Lebanon, containing large quantities of ammonium nitrate exploded. After an initial explosion, a subsequent blast caused widespread damage, with reports of damage more than 20 kilometers from the port area. Tragically, over 157 people...
Will you help UK-Med respond to medical emergencies like COVID-19? Many fundraising events have been postponed or cancelled due to the COVID-19 pandemic. This Sunday, 26th April, would have been the iconic London Marathon. Whilst we are hopeful many of these events will go ahead at...
Our Humanitarian Health Advisor David Anderson has been seconded to the NHS Nightingale North West as the Director of Quality and IPC...
Following guidance from the UK government, UK-Med has moved our Manchester office online. All staff will be working remotely so that we can support efforts to stop the spread of COVID-19 at home as well as internationally. We have several active responses ongoing during a time...
From 1-28 December 2019, UK-Med deployed a team of 29 clinicians to Apia, Samoa to support existing national and international efforts to control the measles outbreak....
With a climate related disaster being recorded every week, it seems no one will be untouched by the impacts of climate change (Harvey, 2019)....