Since early 2021, UK-Med have been working with the READY Initiative on a training programme that helps organisations prepare and respond to crises. We’re excited to share more details on the initiative below and our upcoming training programme in Cameroon, Turkey and Sudan....
Kenyan critical care doctor and UK-Med member Serah tells us of her experiences setting up a life-saving Intensive Care Unit for pregnant mums in Malawi, as part of the UK Emergency Medical Team’s (UK EMT) response to COVID-19. ...
Critical care nurse Christina was one of ten UK-Med members who flew to Papua New Guinea in October 2021 as part of an eight-week response on behalf of the UK Emergency Medical Team to help fight a second surge of COVID-19 cases across the country....
Barry, a retired headteacher, was a patient at Mt Hagen hospital in Papua New Guinea for nine weeks after he contracted COVID-19. Barry was known by many of the local health staff as he'd been their teacher at school, and he quickly developed a real...
UK-Med’s John Irvine has been featured by a number of publications, including the Scottish Herald and Edinburgh Live! Read an edited version of the press release ...
Ahead of COP26, UK-Med helped publish the Sounding the Siren Report that asked aid workers – how do we prepare the aid system for the climate emergency? You can learn more about the report's findings and recommendations at soundingthesiren.com...
Orthopaedic Surgeon and UK-Med Surgical Lead Andy Kent has extensive military and humanitarian experience, with over 30 years of surgical experience and 17 years’ service in the Royal Army Medical Corps. His international responses include Mosul, Beirut and Eswatini....
A team of medics from UK-Med are travelling to Papua New Guinea in the Pacific on behalf of the UK’s Emergency Medical Team (EMT) to support health services under severe pressure, with many of the country’s doctors and nurses exhausted or becoming infected and unable...
A team of ten medical and logistics specialists have been sent to Malawi to support the Malawian Ministry of Health’s Covid-19 response as part of the UK Emergency Medical Team (EMT)....
We’re excited to announce our new responses in Mauritania and Eswatini to support their COVID-19 responses, in partnership with the WHO. ...