Over the last few weeks, our needs assessment team has been on the ground preparing response to the growing threat that COVID-19 poses to the thousands of migrants and refugees living in camps both on mainland Greece and the Aegean Islands....
UK-Med joins the team leading the build of Nightingale North West...
UK-Med is supporting the UK Emergency Medical Team response to the COVID-19 outbreak, as announced earlier today as part of a broader announcement of the UK’s response to the outbreak. ...
Everyone at UK-Med was delighted to see reports last week that the last two measles patients, an 11-month-old and a one-year-old, were discharged from the main hospital in Apia....
Over the last year and a half, UK-Med has been engaged in the process of reviewing and updating its membership database system....
Linda Doull (WHO Global Health Cluster Coordinator) speaks about humanitarian coordination and changing need at the annual UK EMT Members’ Meeting in November 2019....
In order to help the growing number of people caught up in natural disasters, disease outbreaks and conflict, UK-Med must grow and respond more often....
"In five years, things have certainly changed in the principles of design of an Ebola Treatment Unit” - Reflections from Sierra Leone to Rwanda by Vero Verónica Sánchez Carrera (WASH engineer) ...
“Experiencing the deaths of children from this preventable disease was really heartbreaking, but seeing the children I’d been caring for who had been so unwell, improve and be discharged home with their families was amazing.” Susanna Keiderling – Paediatric Nurse...
In November 2019 a group of our members were welcomed by colleagues in Sierra Leone to take part in an observational trip. The trip provided vital insight into healthcare facilities in low-resource settings. We spoke to Emergency Department (ED) nurse Lorraine Lloyd about her experience...