Soon after arriving in Cité Militaire NYCMedics mobile medical team learned of a young girl with grave injuries whose parents feared she was going to die. They found her in the back of a makeshift camp listless, dehydrated and deteriorating from her injuries. Living in an open field peppered with Read more…
While conducting a medical needs assessment in Malawi, NYCMedics met Emanuel and his older brother Levinson, who lived in the remote northern village of Chikomabuzi. Emanuel was 17 years old and presented with third-degree burns from his knees to his ankles after a house fire six months earlier. The damage Read more…
NEED Described as the strongest and most damaging storms to ever strike the Bahamas, Hurricane Dorian made landfall on Sept 1, 2019 with category five winds reaching 185 mph and storm surges greater than 18 feet. Intensifying the devastation, Dorian stalled over Abaco and Grand Bahama Island, the worst affected Read more…
Background In December 2016, The World Health Organization (WHO) made an urgent request for assistance for the conflict in Iraq for trauma and stabilization care for people wounded in the conflict. Patients presenting with grave injuries were dying before reaching the hospital because they did not have access to the Read more…
Background On April 25th, 2015, a powerful earthquake of magnitude 8.1 struck the Gorkha region of central Nepal The earthquake directly resulted in over 9,000 deaths, as well as 23,000 people injured NYC Medics Response NYCMedics assessment personnel arrived in Kathmandu, Nepal on April 29th NYCMedics registered with the Nepalese Read more…
BACKGROUND On January 12, 2010, a 7.0 magnitude earthquake struck Haiti, the poorest country in the Western hemisphere. Just 25 kilometers west of Port au Prince, and 13 km in depth the catastrophic event killed than 230,000 people and injured more than 300,000. An impoverished nation where nearly 70% of Read more…