Every sector is needing to quickly adapt to the challenges presented by COVID-19, including humanitarian response. As we lobby for a humanitarian corridor to allow our medical teams to provide support on the ground, we’ve also set up a remote technical support desk....
Following guidance from the UK government, UK-Med has moved our Manchester office online. All staff will be working remotely so that we can support efforts to stop the spread of COVID-19 at home as well as internationally. We have several active responses ongoing during a time...
That was the message from Dr Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesu the World Health Organisation’s (WHO) Director-General. In a media briefing yesterday, the WHO Director-General’s stated the COVID19 outbreak had been characterized a pandemic....
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. ...
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....
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) ...