Patient Stories

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…