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We are a frontline, medical, humanitarian NGO. Born of the NHS, we work towards a world where everyone has the healthcare they need when disaster strikes: www.uk-med.org

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UK-Med @uk-med.bsky.social · 12/08/2025
📍Gaza | A harrowing milestone UK-Med has conducted over 600,000 patient consultations in #Gaza - over 370,000 of which were emergencies. The situation on the ground remains heart-breaking. This milestone demonstrates the continued impact of delivering healthcare, in acute and demanding times. 🏥
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UK-Med @uk-med.bsky.social · 28/07/2025
“Gaza needs sustained access to food, water and medical care” Paramedic, Sam Sears speaks with @channel4news.bsky.social about the current challenges facing patients in #Gaza. We are seeing over 1,200 patients a day in desperate need of food and healthcare. To treat patients, we need supplies.
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UK-Med @uk-med.bsky.social · 22/07/2025
🗨️ The suffering in #Gaza is beyond words — and we can't look away. Mayor of Greater Manchester, Andy Burnham, puts his - and the city of Manchester's - support behind our Gaza Hospital Appeal. Support healthcare today, lives depend on it 👉 www.uk-med.org/gaza-crisis-...
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UK-Med @uk-med.bsky.social · 15/07/2025
How difficult is it to operate a field hospital in #Gaza❓ Hear from Jay giving some insight into the situation on the ground. Our main priority is ensuring our staff and patients have the essentials they need in this deeply challenging environment.
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UK-Med @uk-med.bsky.social · 11/07/2025
During conflict, timing can make the difference between life and death. That’s why expert training is essential to provide quality care as quickly as possible. Since March 2022, UK-Med has trained over 25,000 civilians and healthcare workers in #Ukraine to help save lives. ❤️‍🩹
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UK-Med @uk-med.bsky.social · 10/07/2025
📢 To date, the Gaza Hospital Appeal has raised funds to provide over 2,000 consultations to the people in #Gaza. Your support is a beacon of hope to the UK-Med staff and patients, who are against the odds. 🤝 Each donation helps save lives. ❤️‍🩹 Thank you.
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UK-Med @uk-med.bsky.social · 09/07/2025
📍 Sudan | Worsening humanitarian situation. Despite the difficulties accessing healthcare in country, UK-Med is working remotely with Relief International to deliver clinical mentorship and training to frontline health workers on the ground in crisis-affected regions.
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UK-Med @uk-med.bsky.social · 27/06/2025
Mohammad, a fisherman from Rafah, sustained a gunshot wound whilst trying to collect aid from a distribution point and was sent to UK-Med’s surgical team. This commitment to providing medical care in #Gaza for those caught up in the conflict remains steadfast — and continues daily.
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UK-Med @uk-med.bsky.social · 18/06/2025
English teacher, Lina, was at a café when all of a sudden she felt a pulsating buzz in her ear followed by a burning sensation all over her body. She couldn’t open her eyes. Lina’s heartbreaking story is like so many others in Gaza today, trying to survive against the odds. ➡️ shorturl.at/sFHZO
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Gaza | Lina: “I heard them saying we’ll lose her, let’s hurry up.”
English teacher, Lina, 26, was spending time at a café on the beach with her sister and cousin. All of a sudden, she felt a pulsating buzz in her ear followed by a burning sensation all over her body....
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UK-Med @uk-med.bsky.social · 13/06/2025
📢 UK-Med has provided over 500,000 consultations to people in #Gaza 📢 A devastating milestone to have reached. 🔴 Thousands of injuries. 🔴 Millions displaced, some more than 10 times. 🔴 Less than 5 fully functioning hospitals. ➡️ www.uk-med.org/2025/06/12/5... KEEP THE HOSPITALS OPEN.
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500,000 treated in Gaza
UK-Med, the British frontline medical charity, is warning that Gaza’s healthcare system is broken beyond repair and the current situation is untenable. The organisation has now treated over half a mil...
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UK-Med @uk-med.bsky.social · 11/06/2025
This week UK-EMT is in #Ethiopia to strengthen both medical response teams through sharing expertise, training together, and equipping the team via deployable FCDO Gov UK- funded field hospital. @ukinethiopia.bsky.social | @who.int
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UK-Med @uk-med.bsky.social · 30/05/2025
📢 UK-Med runs two of the last remaining field hospitals in Gaza. 📢 We also support the last functioning local hospital in southern Gaza, Nasser Medical Complex. We’ve been there since the beginning. The situation is desperate. Keep the hospitals open. 👉 www.uk-med.org/gaza-crisis-...
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UK-Med @uk-med.bsky.social · 23/05/2025
🔴 We need your help. And we need it now. 🔴 Keep the last hospitals in Gaza open. People are being injured in intensifying airstrikes. Dying from treatable illnesses. Everyone is hungry. Most hospitals have been destroyed. Support our team, save lives 👉 lnkd.in/e5BuEhfm
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UK-Med @uk-med.bsky.social · 06/05/2025
🌍 Yesterday, today and everyday we celebrate UK-Med's incredible maternity team in #Gaza. Despite constant challenges the team have helped almost 6️⃣0️⃣0️⃣ people deliver their babies and provide life-saving pre and post-natal care which is so desperately needed. 🚑 #internationaldayofthemidwife #IDM2025
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UK-Med @uk-med.bsky.social · 01/05/2025
📍 North Macedonia | Rehabilitation to recovery At the request of the Government of the Republic of North Macedonia, the UK EMT has trained 30 medical professionals in burns management and rehabilitation to support the critical care required after the tragic fire in #Kochani.
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UK-Med @uk-med.bsky.social · 24/04/2025
📍 #Goma, Democratic Republic of Congo #DRC Amid the ongoing conflict many civilians need rehab support to recover from their injuries. 💡 UK EMT partnered with the local rehab centre to make the equipment and produce handmade crutches from old tyres, more suitable to the rugged environment. 🦿
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UK-Med @uk-med.bsky.social · 22/04/2025
Thrilled to see @savechildrenuk.bsky.social has been verified by the @who.int as the first NGO maternal and baby specialist #EMT 🎉 A maternity unit was established within the UK-Med field hospital in #Gaza, and hundreds of mothers and newborns have received treatment since. 🧑‍🍼 rb.gy/2r7vic
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Save the Children to send first NGO maternal and baby specialist teams to disasters after WHO verification
Save the Children’s Emergency Health Unit, now WHO-verified, delivers lifesaving maternal and newborn care in disasters worldwide. From Gaza to Mozambique, our teams provide urgent medical support, bu...
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UK-Med @uk-med.bsky.social · 15/04/2025
💥 Our 2024 Impact Report is online 💥 Last year was our most demanding yet, but with your support we provided vital healthcare to people in #Rwanda, #Zambia, #Ukraine, #Bangladesh, #Lebanon and #Gaza. A heartfelt thanks for caring about the people caught in these crises. ❤️‍🩹 👉 rb.gy/r2yaq2
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UK-Med @uk-med.bsky.social · 10/04/2025
Resurgent conflict in the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) is fuelling a deteriorating health crisis. UK Emergency Medical Team (EMT), funded by Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office, is on the ground in Goma, eastern #DRC, providing specialist surgical advice in local facilities. 🥼
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UK-Med @uk-med.bsky.social · 07/04/2025
'Pregnancy is already stressful but imagine being pregnant in a warzone.' 🌍 On #WorldHealthDay 2025, we’re highlighting the remarkable efforts of our maternal health team in #Gaza. Amid a rapidly worsening humanitarian situation, thousands of mothers are in urgent need of support. 👉 rb.gy/e97xds
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UK-Med @uk-med.bsky.social · 04/04/2025
🚨 Every person should get the healthcare they need when crises hit. That’s why we’ve delivered 400,000+ consultations in #Gaza. This milestone is a testament to the efforts of our teams, despite the increasingly volatile context since the collapse of the ceasefire 👉 www.uk-med.org/donate-gaza-...
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UK-Med @uk-med.bsky.social · 03/04/2025
First aid saves lives. The first person on scene to a casualty isn’t always a medic. That’s why instructors like Olena in #Ukraine are so important; training civilians in how to deal with the worst-case scenario and buying vital time for the emergency services to arrive. 🚑
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UK-Med @uk-med.bsky.social · 01/04/2025
Last week, we concluded a joint medical assessment to #Syria w/ @cadus.bsky.social identifying key challenges: 💥 Very high levels of unexploded ordnance. 🏥 Lack of surgical & trauma capacity. 🦠 Limited infection, prevention & control in hospitals. Details👉 bit.ly/3Y9bB3C
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UK-Med and CADUS: Joint statement on the medical assessment in Syria
Syria is at a crossroads. 14 years of conflict is imprinted on the country, and the figures are alarming; according to OCHA, an estimated 16 million people, over 65% of the population are in need of h...
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UK-Med @uk-med.bsky.social · 31/03/2025
Catastrophic scenes from #Myanmar in the wake of the earthquake — urgent trauma care should be the first priority. Our Health Director, Dr Ram Vadi, spoke to @TimesRadio ahead of his trip, with a small team arriving in Bangkok today. From 09:23 ➡️ bit.ly/3FOXeeA
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Darryl Morris | Times Radio | The Times and the Sunday Times
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UK-Med @uk-med.bsky.social · 28/03/2025
For thousands of people in remote communities of #Ukraine, UK-Med mobile medical units are one of the very few chances to receive medical care where access to doctors is almost impossible. 💙💛 🚑 Our team is on hand to support people like Nina and Svitlana and ensure they are not alone.
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UK-Med @uk-med.bsky.social · 27/03/2025
At the UK-Med field hospital in #Gaza, surgeons removed a bullet from 3-year-old Razan’s neck, which had narrowly missed her spinal cord. “Razan is much better now, but she is still psychologically damaged…She is too young to have to endure any of this”- Diyar, Razan’s father, explains.
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UK-Med @uk-med.bsky.social · 27/03/2025
This is Daraa City, #Syria captured by our teams this month. Elsewhere Syrians live among the rubble with 75% of the population requiring food, water, medicines and electricity. UK-Med is currently conducting an initial medical assessment to establish this need and how support could be delivered.
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UK-Med @uk-med.bsky.social · 26/03/2025
The situation for people caught at the frontline of the conflict in #Ukraine remains desperate. But, among this, are the individual stories of hope and resilience. 💙💛 Hear from UK-Med's team in Ukraine about the current healthcare situation on the ground and how you can help ➡️ rb.gy/mdgnrr
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Voices from the frontline: Ukraine
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UK-Med @uk-med.bsky.social · 26/03/2025
🥼 Our register has over 1000 expert professionals on call to respond quickly when disaster hits. 14 of our team members were among the first to be awarded the Humanitarian Medal from the King in February 🎖️ Read more here ➡️ www.uk-med.org/2025/02/18/u...
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UK-Med team members receive Humanitarian Medals from King
14 humanitarians, including NHS medics who delivered life-saving care in Gaza, will be among the first to receive the new Humanitarian Medal.
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UK-Med @uk-med.bsky.social · 25/03/2025
This week marks 1️⃣ year since we opened our doors to receive patients in the Type 2 (T2) field hospital in #Gaza. As strikes intensify, our team is ready & prepared to support civilians caught up in the crisis — ensuring care reaches those who need it most.
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UK-Med @uk-med.bsky.social · 24/03/2025
❗ Last year we treated more than 300,000 people across our deployments in Gaza, Ukraine, Lebanon, Rwanda, Bangladesh and Zambia ❗ This is a testament to the enormous efforts of our team to care for hundreds of injured and sick people every day. ❤️‍🩹 See our last year in pictures ➡️ rb.gy/kk92ul
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A Year in Pictures 2024
Over the past 12 months UK-Med has worked across the world providing life-saving healthcare to people in crises and disasters.
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UK-Med @uk-med.bsky.social · 24/03/2025
UK-Med is now on Bluesky! As a @who.int verified Emergency Medical Team and NGO with over 30 years’ experience, we work across the world providing life-saving medical care whenever crises hit. Follow us to get direct information on what is happening in the field and how you can get involved.
Follow us using our handle: @uk-med.bsky.social
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