Over 41,000 people have been killed in Gaza and over 2,000 people have killed in Lebanon since 7 October 2024, including thousands of children. The health needs are overwhelming with local hospitals treating injured and sick people whilst also being impacted by the conflict themselves. The crisis is devastating.
UK-Med is one of the largest emergency healthcare providers in Gaza, with expert teams on the ground equipped to help those in desperate need of medical attention. We urgently need your support to respond to the growing and urgent need in the Middle East.
As one of the largest health providers in Gaza, UK-Med employs more than 570 local Palestinian staff and has rotated nearly 30 NHS medics through Gaza, among them emergency doctors, nurses, midwives, surgeons, and GPs.
With the expertise of specialist doctors and surgeons, as well as your support, we have treated over 200,000 people, including 1,600 surgeries, seeing over 1,400 patients a day.
Our staff are based at our primary health care facility in Deir El Balah as well as the UK-Med field hospital in Al Mawasi, which is equipped with a 24-hour operating theatre and emergency department, maternity unit, and primary healthcare clinic which is a lifeline for people in the area.
We are a diverse emergency response organisation, with not only surgery and trauma support capabilities but also rehabilitation and risk communication and community engagement expertise as well.
As the only World Health Organization verified rehabilitation Emergency Medical Team, our teams on the ground have carried out over 1,700 treatment sessions to those affected by the conflict.
Our RCCE team has also reach over 99,000 community members, with essential health advise and information including the polio vaccination programme, in which we have seen over 2,700 children vaccinated against polio.
We have launched a Middle East 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
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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