Since deploying to Aden (Yemen) in 2020, NYCMedics has been working to develop Yemen’s prehospital care system – a project that has proved timely and needed given the double challenge of Yemen’s state of emergency and the COVID-19 pandemic. Its first group of 6 paramedics graduated in December 2020 and Read more…
January 14, 2021 – We’re excited to announce that the executive director of NYC Medics, Katherine Bequary, will speak on the Refugee and Disaster Medicine Panel during the Wilderness Medical Society’s virtual 2021 Winter Conference on Saturday, February 20. This special Refugee and Disaster Medicine Panel forms part of the Read more…
In 2020, the World Health Organization (WHO) asked NYCMedics to deliver a prehospital care refresher training course to 200+ prehospital care providers in Gaza. The goal was to strengthen Gaza’s prehospital care system by standardizing the level of care in the prehospital environment and getting the paramedics up to speed Read more…
Despite the COVID-19 pandemic, NYCMedics has begun implementation of its health systems development in Yemen. In another partnership with the WHO to help communities and governments in situations of ongoing crisis, NYCM has deployed to Aden to help set up a pre-hospital care system which is largely non-existent in Yemen. Read more…
Five years after the Nepal earthquake many buildings still lie in ruins. But homeowners and conservationists are working to overcome bureaucratic hurdles to rebuild and preserve the area’s unique heritage, says resident photographer and journalist Pete Pattisson Pete Pattisson Mon 8 Jun 2020 05.30 EDTLast modified on Mon 8 Jun 2020 Read more…
Cristobal first named storm expected to hit US this season Heavy rains could cause flash flooding in central Gulf coast Reuters Published onSat 6 Jun 2020 11.48 EDT Tropical Storm Cristobal moved through the US Gulf of Mexico on Saturday carrying strong winds and heavy rains that prompted the evacuation Read more…
Pentecost Island, devastated by Cyclone Harold in April, has been left a silent shadow of its former self. But its people endure by Dan McGarry Fri 5 Jun 2020 18.00 EDTLast modified on Fri 5 Jun 2020 18.02 EDT Touching down on the island of Pentecost in Vanuatu, it takes hours to Read more…
A highly complex aid operation is under way in the Bahamas in the aftermath of Hurricane Dorian, with an array of international non-goverment organisations rubbing shoulders and occasionally treading on each other’s toes. On Wednesday morning, when a vehicle drove up with medical supplies for an outpatient centre in Treasure Read more…
Large swaths of Greater Abaco Island were destroyed by Hurricane Dorian, which was the worst disaster in Bahamas history Mika, a search and rescue dog, takes a rest in the Abaco Island shantytown of Pigeon Peas, which was demolished in the wake of Hurricane Dorian, in Marsh Harbour, Bahamas, on Read more…
The official death toll of Hurricane Dorian in the Bahamas has risen to 20 people with officials certain the number will continue to rise, the prime minister, Hubert Minnis, announced as he declared a “historic tragedy” on the archipelago. At a press conference late on Wednesday the prime minister also Read more…