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KENYA
The mission to Kenya represented the part of NYC Medics’ work that focuses on helping local populations expand their healthcare
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PHILLIPINES
Typhoon Haiyan made landfall in The Philippines on November 8, 2013, resulting in extensive damage to infrastructure.
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MALAWI
Malawi is one of the poorest countries in the world with an estimated 75 percent of the population living on less than $1 a day
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JAPAN
At 2:46 a.m. on March 11, 2011, a 9.1-magnitude earthquake shook the ocean 231 miles northeast of Tokyo, at a depth of 15.2 miles.
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HAITI
On January 12, 2010, a devastating earthquake with a magnitude of 7.3 struck Haiti, killing more than 220,000 people and
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PAKISTAN
On the morning of October 8, 2005, an earthquake hit northern Pakistan measuring 7.6 on the Richter Scale.
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Hurricane Maria Relief in Dominica- Volunteer Reflection
He was so happy just to see us there at the hospital from a different country caring.
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IRAQ DISPATCHES: SEPT 1ST, 2017
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…
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MOSUL DISPATCHES: JULY 2, 2017
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…
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MOSUL DISPATCHES: JUNE 30, 2017
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…