Vlog+

Providing Hope and Healing in Gaza

Helping Babies Breathe Training in Pakistan

MedGlobal team, Indus Hospital in Pakistan

Compassion and Empathy Workshop in Pakistan

Adult Ultrasound Training in Pakistan

Dr. Jay Jindal urges volunteers to join Greece mission

Divina Providencia Dinner

Our Gaza mission concludes

Volunteer!

Interview from Gaza

World Refugee Day

Report from Gaza

MedGlobal mission in Venezuela

MedGlobal and MEDCARE in Colombia

Urgent MedGLobal message from Idlib

HBB training programs in Bangladesh.

Ramadan Kareem from Dr. Sahloul

Eid Mubarak from Dr. Draper

Ramadan Mubarak from Dr. Akhras

Ramadan Kareem from Dr. Ahson

Eid Mubarak from Dr. Maryam

Lebanon Medical Mission October 2018

Rohingya preparing for monsoon 2018

Moonsoon Season 2018 Bangladesh

2018 in review

2017 in review

Blog+

Volunteers

A Global First Responder’s diary from Moria Camp in Greece

By Adam Beckett, MedGlobal Volunteer & Global First Responder Day One: I am doing a little insightful reading for the long journey ahead from a

February 19, 2020

Henna Q teaching Helping Babies Survive training at Lurie Children's Hospital

Featured

Join the second annual MedGlobal Day April 17 in Washington, DC!

Hear from leaders in the field, connect with MedGlobal leadership and fellow volunteers, or invite a friend to learn more about the sustainable impact happening

February 17, 2020

Advocate

MedGlobal meets with high-level UN officials about Syria

Last week, MedGlobal President Dr. Zaher Sahloul and the advocacy team held a round of high-level meetings with UN agencies, officials, and delegations to discuss

February 4, 2020

Uncategorized

Announcing Training Mission to Pakistan: March 2020!

This will be MedGlobal’s second Pakistan mission to train local medical providers at Indus Health Network. Training throughout the week will include Point of Care

February 4, 2020

Country

MedGlobal led a solidarity mission with the displaced civilians in Idlib, Syria

MedGlobal provides hope and healing to the displaced people in Idlib, Syria MedGlobal, along with a group of humanitarian organizations, stood in solidarity with 1.2

January 14, 2020

Country

MedGlobal’s diverse team of volunteers unify with local partner to reduce healthcare gaps in Pakistan

MedGlobal recently deployed an educational mission to Pakistan in November 2019. Along with local partner, Indus Hospital, MedGlobal and volunteers provided training to health care

January 8, 2020

Featured

Volunteer Opportunity: MedGlobal clinic in Bangladesh, serving Rohingya refugees, in need of volunteers for 2020

Cox’s Bazar, Bangladesh, currently hosts the world’s largest refugee camp, with more than 1.24 Million Rohingya in need of humanitarian assistance. We operate in a

January 3, 2020

Country

Saving babies, one mission at a time: Help us send care and healing to Yemen

This past November, MedGlobal took a team of volunteers to complete a medical, surgical, and educational mission in Yemen. MedGlobal volunteer pediatrician, Dr. Lia Harris,

December 30, 2019

Donate

Help save lives, get a tax break: Donate stocks to support MedGlobal!

Do you have stocks that have appreciated this year? You can get a tax break if you donate them to MedGlobal! By donating appreciated assets,

December 30, 2019

Country

This Christmas, make a gift of health care to Venezuelan refugees

The Venezuelan refugee exodus is the worst humanitarian crisis in the southern hemisphere, second only to the Syrian catastrophe. Fifteen percent of the population –

December 25, 2019

Country

MedGlobal provides hope and healing, completes highly successful mission in Yemen

MedGlobal recently returned from a targeted medical mission in Yemen providing medical and surgical services and medical training programs. A diverse team of highly skilled

December 24, 2019

Country

MedGlobal Volunteer Opportunities: Clinic serving refugees in Greece needs medical volunteers for 2020

Over 50,000 refugees have arrived by sea at the Greek Agean Islands of Lesvos, Samos, and Leros in 2019 – a significant increase from 2018.

December 24, 2019

Country

Help us provide dignified healthcare and healing to Rohingya refugees

There are currently over 1.3 million Rohingya refugees in Bangladesh, over 75% of them are women and children. Our medical volunteers and local doctors have

December 23, 2019

MedGlobal establishes a clinic in Columbia to serve Venezuelan migrants

Country

MedGlobal Volunteer Opportunities: Clinic serving Venezuelan refugees in Colombia in need of volunteers for 2020

Marked by political repression, hyperinflation, food and medicine shortages, the crisis in Venezuela continues, unabated after five years of conflict. Once the richest country in

December 18, 2019

Donate

Save Lives, Give Zakat to MedGlobal before the year ends

According to Islamic scholars, Zakat, or almsgiving should be given to the most vulnerable, the needy, and displaced (al-masakeen and wayfarers). Your Zakat helps us

December 16, 2019

Country

Volunteer Reflection: Reducing the rate of infant mortality in Pakistan through Helping Babies Breathe

“Imagine you are at the delivery of a baby and the baby does not breathe or cry when born. No one knows what to do

December 6, 2019

Country

Volunteer Reflections: Training health care professionals in Karachi, Pakistan

By MedGlobal Volunteer, Dr. Aisha Mirza, Associate Clinical Professor University of Alberta Department of Emergency Medicine “One thing at a time, and all things in

November 27, 2019

Country

As Yemen crisis worsens, the Humanitarian Alliance for Yemen launches medical mission

Chicago (November 8, 2019) – In response to the worsening humanitarian crisis in Yemen, the Humanitarian Alliance for Yemen is set to deploy a new

November 8, 2019

People awaiting services at the border zone just inside Colombia.

Country

Reflections on the Venezuelan migrant crisis and my work with MedGlobal

By Allison Walton, MD. All photos taken by Dr. Walton. The Venezuelan migrant crisis is ultimately a tale of corruption, greed, and shortsightedness, but also

October 31, 2019

Country

Volunteer Reflections: A General Practitioner’s experience treating Rohingya refugees in Bangladesh

By Dr. Abdul, General Practitioner I am a UK trained General Practitioner currently based in the Middle East, after working for many years in the

October 24, 2019

Helping Babies Breathe Mission in Pakistan

Country

“Breathe, Baby, Breathe!” Why I am joining MedGlobal on a mission to teach neonatal resuscitation in Pakistan

Breathe, baby breathe! Imagine being at the delivery of a baby that you are assigned to care for – and that the baby does not breathe

October 23, 2019

Country

5 reasons to support MedGlobal’s mission in Yemen

Yemen is currently experiencing the world’s largest humanitarian crisis, resulting from nearly five years of relentless conflict intensified by severe pre-existing vulnerabilities – widespread poverty,

October 22, 2019

Country

Letter from the Palestinian American Medical Association to MedGlobal

MedGlobal and PAMA (Palestinian American Medical Association) partnered up to send a team of medical and surgical volunteers for a week-long mission to pilot a

October 15, 2019

Iraqi Kurdistan volunteers for MedGlobal

Country

URGENT APPEAL: Humanitarian Disaster in Northeast Syria and Iraqi Kurdistan

Ongoing military operations in northeastern Syria has already displaced 64,000 Syrian civilians internally and to the Iraqi Kurdistan regions. An additional 300,000 civilians will most likely be displaced to the

October 11, 2019

In The Press

In the last 72 hours, the United Nations reports more than 250,000 people have been displaced from Syrian towns and villages near Idlib.

It has been called the world’s worst humanitarian crisis.

Read full article and watch the interview here.

In a hospital in Karachi, a Pakistani medical resident examines a patient who has pain in his side. The resident and her instructor scan the man with a hand-held device about the size of an electric razor and discover he has a backup of fluid in his kidney. The patient’s history and further tests confirm their diagnosis.

Read full article here.

The war in Syria has waged for almost nine years and claimed millions of lives. Northwest Idlib province is the last refuge for Syrians fleeing attacks by President Bashar al-Assad’s regime. But the crowded, muddy refugee camps there offer little shelter or support, and to the north, Turkey’s border is closed to those seeking better conditions. Nick Schifrin reports on Idlib’s “fragile stability.”

Read full article and watch video here.

Tracy Ibgui, a registered nurse from Clarendon Hills, traveled to the world’s largest refugee camp in Bangladesh, to help victims of what the United Nations calls a genocide; mass killings of Rohingya Muslims by the government in Myanmar.

Read full article and watch video here.

“Women want to control the time that they deliver because things are unexpected,” Sahloul said. “A bombing can happen at any time, and in the middle of the night you cannot move to the hospital.”

Read the full article here.

As a general pediatrician, and Neonatal Resuscitation Program (NRP) instructor from Vernon, BC, Canada, I couldn’t help but see a need for newborn resuscitation education when I volunteered with MedGlobal for the first time in the Rohingya refugee camp, near Cox’s Bazar, Bangladesh, in April, 2018.

Read the full article here

“We provide health care to the displaced and victims of wars and natural disasters. I have been in countries like Yemen, Gaza, Lebanon, Iraq, Puerto Rico after hurricane Maria, Venezuela, and Columbia. Syria is the worst humanitarian crisis I have witnessed.” ~Dr. Sahloul, MeGlobal President

Watch the interview here.

Syria’s last rebel-held region has been bombarded by the advancing Syrian Army this past month, leaving millions trapped and 400,000 displaced.

“This is the worst crisis that the world is facing in the 21st century. You know, there are brushfires in Australia, there’s all kinds of wars, but we’re talking about 4 million people who are trapped in Idlib.”

Read the full article here.

Even for children who weren’t separated from their parents during immigration processing, the psycho-emotional stressors of making such a journey can be “far worse than the physical ones,” retired pediatrician John Kahler said.

Read the full article here.

“Sharing the information with the United Nations did not lead to greater protection,” said Dr Zaher Sahloul, the president of MedGlobal who was recently in Idlib. “If anything people are thinking right now that by sharing this information it’s increasing the risk of targeting the hospitals.”

Read the full article here.

Syrian Muslims, Rohingya Muslims and Yemeni Muslims are very different from each other in terms of literacy rates, lifestyles and occupations, says retired pediatrician John Kahler. Yet, today, all of these groups are struggling with escalating violence in their homelands, resulting in growing humanitarian crises around the world.

Read the full article here.

According to a Word Health Organization (WHO) situation report, there are 18.8 million people in Yemen who are in need of some sort of humanitarian aid. 14.8 million people in Yemen have no access to health care services.

Read the full article here.

Syrian President Bashar al-Assad is determined to take back the province of Idlib. After nearly nine years of civil war, this is the last remaining rebel stronghold in Syria. The World’s Shirin Jaafari reports.

Read the full article here.

After nine years of suffering, it looks as if the international community and the United Nations have left the Syrian people on their own. Even proper tents to give some warmth, usually provided by UNHCR, were not available when I was there.

Read the full article here.

“I saw some villages completely emptied or half-emptied of their residents,” said Dr. Zaher Sahloul, the president of MedGlobal, an organization that sends medical teams to disaster regions, who risked the bombardments and threats from extremist groups to visit some of the most devastated areas this week.

Read the full article here.

The National Hellenic Museum will host a conversation with MedGlobal Doctors John Kahler and Peter Houck on the current state of the refugee crisis in Greece on Sunday, August 11, 2019, from 2 – 4 PM.

Read the full press release here.

Every day is a busy day at the Hope Foundation clinic outside Balukhali camp in Bangladesh. The small facility teems with Rohingya refugees who have fled a campaign of brutal violence by the Myanmar military. The week I was there last December, there was a man with a bullet wound, a woman with facial burns, and more women with tiny babies than I could count.

Read the full article here.