Past Responses
-
Saving life and limb: The NHS super surgeons reconstructing the war wounded in Ukraine
3rd February 2023As fighting intensifies, plastic surgeons James and Ahmed treat the victims of war in an emergency hospital in...
Read more -
Saving mother’s lives in Malawi
21st January 2022Kenyan critical care doctor and UK-Med member Serah tells us of her experiences setting up a life-saving Inten...
Read more -
Reflecting on the Papua New Guinea response
11th January 2022Critical care nurse Christina was one of ten UK-Med members who flew to Papua New Guinea in October 2021 as pa...
Read more -
Headmaster Barry returns home after nine weeks in hospital
23rd December 2021Barry, a retired headteacher, was a patient at Mt Hagen hospital in Papua New Guinea for nine weeks after he c...
Read more -
“This is the thing I’m meant to do in my life. To stay and help my people.”
11th November 2021The war in Yemen, we say it is the forgotten war. The world has forgotten us. Nobody is talking about Yemen. B...
Read more -
Battling misinformation: Vaccine education and awareness in Lebanon
10th March 2021Alamia Annous is a UK-Med RCCE Advisor working as part of the UK Emergency Medical Team’s (UK EMT) response ...
Read more -
The last measles in-patient in Samoa comes home
29th January 2020Everyone at UK-Med was delighted to see reports last week that the last two measles patients, an 11-month-old ...
Read more -
Reflecting on the Samoa response
9th January 2020“Experiencing the deaths of children from this preventable disease was really heartbreaking, but seeing the ...
Read more -
Martin Griffiths on training in South Sudan
27th September 2019Our registered member, Martin Griffith answers questions on his deployment to South-Sudan....
Read more -
UK-Med team return from Rwanda
9th August 2019Read an update from Benjamin Black, who was part of a small UK-Med team that has recently returned from Rwanda...
Read more