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NYCM Director to speak at WMS 2021

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 Global Health Symposium that will take place during the Pre-Conference. Bequary will be speaking at 9am on the 20th together with Dr. Linda Keyes (a...

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Madeline

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 hundreds of donated tents and sweltering in the Caribbean heat, 10-year-old Madeline was suffering. She was injured after her home collapsed on top of her Read more…

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Patient Stories – Emanuel

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 to his young body was devastating. Emanuel had never been seen by a doctor for his burns and had no medicine to combat the severe Read more…

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Bahamas – Hurricane Dorian, 2019

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 areas, exposing communities to extreme hurricane conditions for two days. Nearly 100,000 people were affected and 76,000 required assistance. In the days following Dorian, health Read more…

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Iraq – Mosul Offensive 2017 After Action Report

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 appropriate care necessary to keep them alive in the field and during transport to the hospital where they would receive definitive, surgical trauma care.  NYCMedics Read more…

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Nepal Earthquake 2015 Report

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 Ministry of Health and Population (MoHP) and the  Foreign Medical Team (FMT) Cluster to provide a Type 1/Mobile FMT; the initial formal request  from the Read more…

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Haiti Earthquake 2010

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 the population lives on less than $2 a day, the earthquake affected 2.8 million people and displaced 1.5 million. The devastating event immediately overwhelmed the Read more…

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Yemen: First Groups of NYCM-Trained Medics Graduate

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 are working in the field. NYCM is proud to be the first organization to ever provide this type of support in Yemen which includes: developing Read more…

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Gaza: NYCM trains 212 medics online

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 on current best practices. Although NYCM’s group was unable to enter Gaza in March 2020 due to the COVID-19 pandemic, NYCM quickly developed an online Read more…

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NYC Medics Begins Work in Yemen, Gaza

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. This includes establishing emergency operations center protocols for ambulance responses, and for transfer of care when patients arrive at the hospital. Although it has been Read more…

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