UK-Med arrived in Bangladesh in early May responding to the urgent health needs of the Rohingya refugees living in and around Cox's Bazaar. Former UNICEF UK CEO and UK-EMT Lead Mike Penrose paints a picture of the challenges of taking on COVID 19 in one of the most densely...
It's no secret that even during a global pandemic women still require sexual and reproductive healthcare services and support. They do not stop conceiving or needing Pre-natal care. They do not stop giving birth or becoming mothers. Maternal health is a vital priority and concern...
Last week team leader Dr Jerome Sess returned from Cambodia. The MOH and WHO were pleased with the support offered....
Our Humanitarian Health Advisor David Anderson has been seconded to the NHS Nightingale North West as the Director of Quality and IPC...
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...
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....