This week, UK-Med sent an international team of medics from the UK’s Emergency Medical Team (UK EMT) to Namibia and Botswana, where they’ll be providing essential front-line response support and expertise in hospitals that are battling the coronavirus pandemic. ...
After last year’s postponement and a world-changing 18 months, we were delighted that our team were able to conquer the Yorkshire Three Peaks Challenge earlier this month!...
UK-Med sends four medics to Djibouti in the Horn of Africa to support healthcare staff battle the coronavirus pandemic. British biomedical engineer Rob Shutt arrives from the UK today. ...
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Kathleen Shields is a Paediatric ED Nurse, Trainee Paediatric ACP in Paediatric Emergency Medicine and UK-Med member. She was a vital part of our response in Malawi in 2016 and Bangladesh in 2019. She signed-up to take part in UK-Med's Three Peak Challenge last year...
Yemen has been gripped by war since late 2014 and continues to be one of the world’s biggest humanitarian crises. The crisis has become more and more desperate as the war drags on. An estimated 3.5 million people have been displaced from their homes...
At the start of 2021, the small southern country of Eswatini experienced a huge surge in coronavirus cases which overwhelmed their healthcare system. UK-Med sent out a team of 9 to support the country’s coronavirus response in January 2021, which included for the first time,...
We are excited to announce the launch of a new online course: Introduction to Humanitarian Healthcare, developed by UK-Med in partnership with the Faculty of Remote, Rural and Humanitarian Healthcare (FRRHH) at the Royal College of Surgeons of Edinburgh (RCSEd)....
On January 26th, Orthopaedic Surgeon and UK-Med surgical lead Andy Kent led a team of 11 to Eswatini as part of the UK Emergency Medical Team response...
Alamia Annous is a UK-Med RCCE Advisor working as part of the UK Emergency Medical Team’s (UK EMT) response in Lebanon. Alamia is a teacher and has experience teaching vulnerable people...