To mark the WHO year of the nurse and midwife, we’re hearing from new member Faith Atim about her reasons for becoming a midwife in the first place, and joining UK-Med as part of our Outbreak Response Register...
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....
"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...