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 ...
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. ...
Today the team kicked off an eight-week programme of remote support for colleagues caring for patients with COVID-19 in Lesotho....
A team of five doctors and nurses will remain in Botswana as part of our COVID-19 response for a further 28 days (until 9th October 2021)....
This week, UK-Med sent an international team of medics from the UK’s Emergency Medical Team (UK EMT) to Namibia and Botswana, where they’ll be providing essential front-line response support and expertise in hospitals that are battling the coronavirus pandemic. ...