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Gaza Health Crisis Appeal 

Over 44,000 people have now been killed in Gaza since 7 October, including many thousands of children. The few remaining hospitals in Gaza can only offer limited maternity, trauma and emergency care services and the humanitarian need is catastrophic.

Across five months working, UK-Med teams have treated over 300,000 people in Gaza so far. We have constructed two field hospitals and employ more than 300 national staff who are working alongside our international medics (many of them from the NHS) to provide life and limb-saving medical aid. We need your support to continue our vital work.

“We went into Gaza at the request of the World Health Organization (WHO). In my 25 years of humanitarian aid work, this is by far the most challenging situation I have seen.”

– David Wightwick, UK-Med CEO

How we’re responding

At the beginning of January 2024 we responded to a call from the WHO and sent a small, highly specialist team to Gaza. Since then, our response has grown to become our largest humanitarian operation to date.

With the expertise of specialist doctors and surgeons, as well as your support, here’s what’s been possible so far:

Al Mawasi Field Hospital

Built using timber from destroyed buildings, sheeting from UNICEF and medical equipment salvaged from Nasser Hospital, our team has constructed a health facility in Gaza that is currently seeing around 500 patients per day. 

Dispatched from our warehouse in Manchester, our tented field hospital was partly added to this medical complex. This has enabled our team to carry out surgical procedures on site.

Our field hospital in Al Mawasi includes:

  • An operating theatre for lifesaving surgical procedures.
  • A maternal and child health unit, which has seen several births to date.
  • An emergency department for urgent care.
  • An in-patient ward.
  • Physical rehabilitation services to help severely injured patients heal and recover.

Deir El Balah Field Hospital

In response to the overwhelming health needs in Gaza, we constructed a second field hospital in Deir El Balah. This hospital offers essential primary health care and the team on the ground is seeing more than 400 patients per day.

We have launched a Gaza Health Crisis Appeal to scale up our work while we continue to send experienced, highly skilled humanitarian medics from our roster to deliver life and limb-saving health care. Your support will save lives in the most desperate of times.

What your donation could provide:

£15 could pay for a pulse oximeter

£30 could help us buy 100 bandages for essential emergency healthcare

£100 could fund a surgical pack including gowns, gloves, caps and facemasks

£222 could pay for a trauma kit

Other ways to support UK-Med

Make a donation by phone or post

Donations over the phone

Call us on 0300 140 9984

Donations by post

Fundraising Team
UK-Med
Elliot House
151 Deansgate
Manchester
M3 3WD

Fundraisers, events and corporate donations

If you’d like to hold a fundraiser – whether that’s yourself, through your school, community group, workplace, or with friends – we’d love to hear from you.

Please get in touch with our team at fundraising@uk-med.org or call 0300 140 9984 to let us know how you’d like to help.

Donations of blankets, clothes, etc.

Unfortunately, that’s not something we can accept at the moment.

Giving money is the best thing you can do. Donations of money enable UK-Med to respond quickly, efficiently, and cost-effectively.  

Please read our policy on unsolicited donations to find out more.

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