UK-Med is pleased to announce it will continue to work for a further four more weeks in Eswatini. Although numbers of COVID-19 cases are now low across the country, the extension will enable the team to continue to...
UK-Med as part of the UK Medical Emergency Team deploys to Eswatini in Southern Africa to support health care teams fight the COVID-19 pandemic. Four British members of the international team fly from Heathrow today. ...
“Things are changing so quickly – we might receive one protocol, and the next day it has already changed!” Operations Co-ordinator Daniella Ritzau-Reid reports from Lebanon....
"The universal horror of patients suffering away from loved ones. The anguish is the same in Laos or London or Armenia." Dr Rebecca Inglis writes about her experience as part of the UK Emergency Medical Team’s coronavirus response in Armenia at the end of...
As Lebanon records record numbers of daily COVID-19 cases, the authorities extend the country's state of emergency....
A UK-Med team including nurses, doctors and humanitarian health specialists is currently in Armenia, supporting the country’s response to COVID-19. We’re working there as part of the UK Emergency Medical Team (UK EMT), which is funded by UK Aid. Our work includes on-the-job support to help...
Thirty-two years after our first emergency response in Armenia, we return to tackle coronavirus....
The UK EMT pilots an infection prevention and control data assessment tool to support the distribution of health resources across Zambia....
The UK Emergency Medical Team is in Beirut at the request of the Lebanese Government after the massive explosion at Beirut Port which killed more than 200 people and left 6000 injured on August 4th....
Three years ago, a million Rohingya Muslims were forced by a military crackdown in Myanmar to flee their homes and cross the borders to neighbouring Bangladesh. In an area prone to cyclones and flooding, the Rohingya set up camp in Cox’s Bazar -now one of...