Dispatches

We are 9 days into our fundraising challenge and have raised just over 50% of our goal! Thank you for your support of NYCMedics! Our work is not done, we have $25,000 more to raise before August 1st. Here is how you can help: Donate   Fundraise on Facebook Spread the Word Read more…

NYCMedics had an incredibly successful year in 2017, and we’re hoping to replicate that success in 2018 as well. So far, we are in the final stages of setting up a training program in Iraq. This program will train ambulance workers and other emergency healthcare workers in Mosul. As Mosul Read more…

  A wonderful evening with NYCMedics family! Thank you to our volunteers, guests and Taconic Distillery, Farmer & The Fish, and Captain Lawrence Brewing Company for a successful event! Check out the photos by Marc Glucksman

TAL AFAR, Iraq — Since leaving Mosul, we had been in an exclusively masculine, militarised environment. Our team was evenly mixed between men and women, but all of the Iraqi people we worked alongside, and saw around the front lines, were men. It was only the second day of the Read more…

MOSUL, Iraq Our ride to Erbil was delayed a few hrs so we saw a brother and sister, ages 6 and 8, who were the only survivors when a rocket hit their building. Both parents killed. Little boy with multiple injuries, which will require operative intervention. Little girl with minor Read more…

MOSUL, Iraq — Today is our last full day in Mosul. We head back to Erbil tomorrow when team 12 with my friend Davis Perkins arrives to relieve us. Yesterday was not our busiest day, but likely the day with highest acuity. We had at least 9 critical burn/trauma patients, Read more…

MOSUL, Iraq — As the army clears large areas of the old city, we are seeing more and more civilians with dehydration, malnutrition, and various infections. Our pediatrician, Michael Falk, stayed up all night with a 5 yr old with pneumonia, dehydration, and possible sepsis. We have been on lock Read more…