Helping Babies Survive (HBS) is a suite of hands-on, evidence-based educational training programs that include Helping Babies Breathe (HBB), Essential Care for Every Baby (ECEB),
By Sonia, Facilitator/Trainer in Helping Babies Breathe Sonia was a participant of the Helping Babies Breathe training, which MedGlobal and UNFPA led in June 2019.
Dr. Jacob Atem recently joined MedGlobal’s team as the Advocacy Coordinator, where he will give a voice to the MedGlobal’s mission and carry out advocacy
By Dr. Maryam Molla, Field Coordinator, BangladeshAugust 25, 2019 On our way to the clinic today we witnessed hundreds of people walking in a line,
Since the mass exodus of Rohingya from their homeland in 2017 due to military and government persecution, MedGlobal has been working to provide humanitarian aid
PRESS RELEASE– For Immediate Distribution – (Chicago, IL – 8/14/19) – MedGlobal has joined with Project HOPE, Pure Hands and United Mission for Relief and
According to the United Nations’ Human Development Index, Pakistan ranks 150 out of 189 countries in the world – well below average for other countries
With 24.1 million people in need, Yemen is currently experiencing the world’s largest humanitarian crisis. A protracted crisis characterized by widespread poverty, conflict, poor governance,
By Dr. Kyle Varner, MedGlobal Medical Volunteer I had the great privilege of volunteering at the MedGlobal clinic in Cucuta, Colombia to provide medical care
Patricia is a 28-year-old mother and Venezuelan migrant. She is a woman that never loses sight of faith, even given her difficult situation. She has
By Lia Harris, MedGlobal volunteer As a general pediatrician and Neonatal Resuscitation Program (NRP) instructor from Canada, I can’t help but see a need for
MedGlobal’s highly-skilled and diverse team of volunteers recently returned from Cox Bazar, Bangladesh, where they taught the Helping Babies Breathe course to local health practitioners.
By Dr. Zaher Sahloul, MedGlobal President and Co-Founder It is astounding how resilient #Syrian civic society is. The organizations, doctors, and nurses in #Idlib, in spite of the
MedGlobal recently established a clinic in Cucuta, Colombia to serve Venezuelan migrants, in partnership with IPS Medcare Colombia S.A.S. To date, MedGlobal has seen over
The MedGlobal-PAMA team was exceptional in its diversity, professionalism, compassion, and sacrifices. Muslims, Christians, Jewish, and Hindu physicians and nurses united as in their humanity
MedGlobal serves Venezuelan migrants and underserved Colombians in the Comuneros Neighborhood in Cucuta, Norte de Santander, in which we have recently provided prenatal care to
By Cathy Burke In June 2019, I spent one week working with MedGlobal in Cucuta, Colombia, providing antenatal and gynecology outpatient care to Venezuelan refugees
MedGlobal and the Palestinian American Medical Association (PAMA) sent a team of medical and surgical volunteers to Gaza for a week-long mission. Follow the team
MedGlobal is partnering with the Palestinian American Medical Association (PAMA) to send a team of medical and surgical volunteers for a week-long mission in Gaza
Donate Spanish version below A new UNHCR report shows that migration has jumped from 695,000 in 2015 to 4 million in mid-2019. Colombia currently hosts
Did you know that 1 in 10 newborns needs help breathing after birth? About one million babies die each year from birth asphyxia, the inability
By Desiree C. Spehn-Roland, MD On my first day of volunteering, the second patient I saw in the Camp 4 Medical Clinic at the Kutupalong
Thanks to our volunteer program and the selfless souls of over 260 medical volunteers, 70 medical missions are changing the lives of thousands in 10
By Dr. Moeen Saleem, April 2019 We had an MVP today. Before I joined the MedGlobal medical mission in #Lebanon, Dr. Marwan Refaat consulted on
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.
“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.”
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.
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.
“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.”
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.
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.
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.
“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.
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.
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