A Manchester-based medical charity has sprung into gear to help the areas severely affected by the earthquakes in Turkey and Syria on Monday morning. UK-MED works all year round to support countries across the world with medical needs, and has been working around the clock to give any support it can to the areas devastated by the massive earthquake.
Founded by Professor Tony Redmond OBE, a Professor of International Emergency Medicine, UK-MED currently have a small team of six in the disaster-hit regions and are rapidly assessing the situation to get the right materials out there as soon as possible. The death toll from the quake, that hit southern Turkey and northern Syria, has so far risen to at least 19,000, but is expected to keep growing, with countless numbers of people displaced and in need of urgent help.
UK-Med is a WHO-verified Emergency Medical Team (EMT), with medics able to fly anywhere in the world to take critical medical aid to where it is needed most and save lives internationally. This requires masses of medical equipment and infrastructure that can be built to replace any hospitals that may have been destroyed or support those severely damaged.
