UK-Med sends four medics to Djibouti in the Horn of Africa to support healthcare staff battle the coronavirus pandemic. British biomedical engineer Rob Shutt arrives from the UK today. ...
Yemen has been gripped by war since late 2014 and continues to be one of the world’s biggest humanitarian crises. The crisis has become more and more desperate as the war drags on. An estimated 3.5 million people have been displaced from their homes...
At the start of 2021, the small southern country of Eswatini experienced a huge surge in coronavirus cases which overwhelmed their healthcare system. UK-Med sent out a team of 9 to support the country’s coronavirus response in January 2021, which included for the first time,...
On January 26th, Orthopaedic Surgeon and UK-Med surgical lead Andy Kent led a team of 11 to Eswatini as part of the UK Emergency Medical Team response...
Alamia Annous is a UK-Med RCCE Advisor working as part of the UK Emergency Medical Team’s (UK EMT) response in Lebanon. Alamia is a teacher and has experience teaching vulnerable people...
John Irvine is an ICU nurse and UK-Med register member from Boness, near Glasgow. John first deployed as part of the UK Emergency Medical Team (UK EMT) in Lebanon in September 2020 for nearly two and a half months. Following a short break, he returned...
UK-Med is pleased to announce it will continue to work for a further four more weeks in Eswatini. Although numbers of COVID-19 cases are now low across the country, the extension will enable the team to continue to...
UK-Med as part of the UK Medical Emergency Team deploys to Eswatini in Southern Africa to support health care teams fight the COVID-19 pandemic. Four British members of the international team fly from Heathrow today. ...
“Things are changing so quickly – we might receive one protocol, and the next day it has already changed!” Operations Co-ordinator Daniella Ritzau-Reid reports from Lebanon....
"The universal horror of patients suffering away from loved ones. The anguish is the same in Laos or London or Armenia." Dr Rebecca Inglis writes about her experience as part of the UK Emergency Medical Team’s coronavirus response in Armenia at the end of...