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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…

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…

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 17.57 EDT As Nepal struggles to get to grips with Covid-19, the country has yet to recover from the 2015 earthquake, which killed almost 9,000 people 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 of a coastal Louisiana community and dozens of offshore oil platforms. The weather system is the first named storm expected to hit the US of 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 notice the silence. After a while it hits you: there’s no birdsong, no insects buzzing and chittering. There is no wind in the trees. You 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 Cay in the devastated Abaco Islands, a volunteer for Heart to Heart International politely advised: “We already have enough of everything – more than we 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 Sunday. Photograph: Zach Fagenson/Reuters Rescue workers wearing white hazard suits continued their grim search for bodies and survivors in the hurricane-ravaged Bahamas on Monday, as 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 warned of reports of looting on the Abaco Islands, a northern band of islands in the Bahamas hardest hit by Dorian, which pummelled the area Read more…