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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+

Spotlight

Volunteer Spotlight: Meet Harriet Hawkins

With over 50 years of nursing experience and a heart of gold, Harriet Hawkins is one of our heroes. She has been instrumental in launching

July 29, 2020

Spotlight

Volunteer Spotlight: Meet Dr. Guillaume Mongeau-Martin

A seasoned volunteer, Dr. Guillaume Mongeau-Martin has worked with refugees at all three of MedGlobal’s sustainable program sites. He most recently returned from a Colombia

June 13, 2020

Advocate

MedGlobal Urges All to Address Structural Racism as a Public Health Crisis

With the brutal death of George Floyd, we are called yet again to pause and reflect and stand in solidarity with the victims of police

June 5, 2020

Volunteers

Volunteer Spotlight: Meet Dr. Nahreen Ahmed

This week, we are proud to highlight Dr. Nahreen Ahmed! Dr. Ahmed has volunteered on multiple missions and is the MedGlobal POCUS Program Chair. She

June 2, 2020

COVID-19

MedGlobal is urgently seeking US-based medical volunteers to support the Navajo Nation and Chicago communities

MedGlobal is seeking US-based nurses to support the Navajo Nation and IL licensed nurses and physicians to support Chicago communities. The Navajo Nation The Navajo

May 27, 2020

Spotlight

Volunteer Spotlight: Meet Dr. Johnstone

Earlier this year, Dr. Anna Johnstone volunteered at the MedGlobal clinic in Cucuta, Colombia and at the Colombia Brigade to El Talento. As we celebrate

May 5, 2020

COVID-19

The Ongoing War in Yemen: Baby Mohammad’s Story

While countries worldwide struggle to prepare for and prevent the spread of COVID-19, Yemen is still fighting another battle: protecting Yemeni citizens, including their 1.2

April 17, 2020

COVID-19

Colombia Brigade: March 2020

This March, MedGlobal conducted its first large-scale medical brigade in Cúcuta, Colombia, a border city that has become an epicenter of Venezuelan migration. As Colombia

April 10, 2020

COVID-19

10 Mental Health Tips for Healthcare workers during the Covid-19 Crisis

Author: Shaznin Daruwalla, PsyD Dr. Shaznin Daruwalla, a Licensed Clinical Psychologist at Oregon State University with experience in low resource settings such as Bangladesh and

April 10, 2020

Country

Reflection on the Targeted Attacks on Medical Volunteers and Refugees in Lesvos, Greece

By Ameer Sharifzadeh, MD Note from MedGlobal: The situation in Moria Camp and throughout Lesvos Island in Greece is changing rapidly in light of the

April 1, 2020

COVID-19

COVID-19: Effects on Refugees and World

Curbing the global COVID-19 pandemic begins with limiting interpersonal transmission. Experts believe that the virus spreads through respiratory droplets, so individuals who do not practice

March 25, 2020

COVID-19

MedGlobal urges immediate action for the most vulnerable during COVID-19 pandemic

In the midst of the global COVID-19 pandemic, MedGlobal urges immediate action for the most vulnerable. We warn of the catastrophic impact of the virus on refugees, displaced persons, and victims of disasters if we do not take immediate action.

March 21, 2020

COVID-19

MedGlobal‌ ‌Calls‌ ‌For‌ ‌Urgent‌ ‌COVID-19‌ ‌Response‌ ‌for‌ ‌Refugees‌ ‌and‌ ‌Displaced‌ ‌Persons‌

March 20, 2020 In the midst of the deadly global COVID-19 pandemic, MedGlobal urges immediate and urgent action to support refugees, displaced persons, and the

March 20, 2020

Country

How healthcare workers in under-resourced areas are benefiting from MedGlobal’s Helping Babies Breathe educational program

Sustainable education; it is the purpose of the train-the-trainer model, which MedGlobal employs, through global partnerships, in developing countries and under-resourced areas.

March 16, 2020

Featured

Updates on MedGlobal programs amid COVID-19 concerns

MedGlobal is closely monitoring the outbreak of COVID-19. We have suspended our short-term missions until further notice, however, our ongoing programs are operating to provide

March 13, 2020

Featured

MedGlobal Conference, Benefit Reception, and Training Courses cancelled due to COVID-19 outbreak

In response to the COVID-19 pandemic, we will be cancelling the MedGlobal Conference & Benefit Reception on April 17 as well as training courses April

March 12, 2020

Coronavirus infectious disease prevention

Featured

MedGlobal President, pulmonologist and critical care specialist provides steps on disease prevention amid Coronavirus concerns

By Dr. Zaher Sahloul, MedGlobal President As novel Coronavirus (2019-nCoV or COVID19) continues to spread and news headlines predict a rise in cases in the

March 5, 2020

Featured

MedGlobal Deeply Concerned about Attacks on Medical Volunteers and Refugees in Greece

March 4, 2020 Washington, DC – MedGlobal expresses deep concern about the recent attacks against humanitarians, including MedGlobal volunteers, and refugees in Greece. MedGlobal has

March 4, 2020

Featured

Announcing 2020 Volunteer Missions to Gaza!

MedGlobal is returning to Gaza twice in 2020 to provide training and medical care in partnership with Rahma Worldwide. Training throughout the week will include

February 28, 2020

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

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

In The Press

The United Nations Security Council on Saturday adopted a resolution that leaves only one of two border crossings open for aid deliveries from Turkey into Syria.

“The veto is against us,” Mustafa Alkaser told NBC News from a refugee camp in Syria’s northwestern Idlib province.

Read the full article here.

“I recently joined a non-governmental organization, MedGlobal, along with a group of volunteers offering medical surgical education program and care at two government hospitals in Yemen; Sayoun General Hospital…”

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Driven from their homes by war and unrest, up to 10 million of the world’s 70 million refugees live in crowded camps and informal settlements. Now comes a new threat: the coronavirus rampaging across the globe.

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The impact of the pandemic on the US, with more than 430,000 cases and nearly 15,000 deaths so far, is familiar to some Arab-American medics who have worked in man-made disasters such the Syrian civil war.Zaher Sahloul, a critical care doctor at Christ Advocate Medical Centre in Chicago and president of refugee assistance group MedGlobal, said the situation at his hospital was closer to a “war zone”.

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Zaher Sahloul, a physician and president and co-founder of aid organization MedGlobal, was last in Idlib in January and said that with so little room, people are sleeping anywhere they can, including tents in a refugee camp set up in a soccer field and tiny classrooms in schools. Many children had respiratory illnesses because of the overcrowding and cold.

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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.

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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.”

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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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The rebel-held province of Idlib in Syria has now reported four cases of Covid-19. The affected people are healthcare workers in a hospital near the Turkish border. Dr Zaher Sahlou, president of the medical charity MedGlobal, outlines the implications of this for the area and the dire shortage of medical equipment.

Listen to the full interview here.

“Are you safe in your hospital in Chicago?” my Syrian colleagues texted me through WhatsApp. They were worried about the reports of a shortage of personal protective equipment and increasing cases of COVID-19 in the U.S. It felt ironic.

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From the battlefields of Syria to a hospital in Chicago: A warzone doctor joins the fight against coronavirus at home He helped doctors to keep their hospitals going through the Syrian war, now he’s battling the coronavirus in Chicago, writes Richard Hall

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Nearly a decade into a conflict defined by mass carnage and war crimes, Syria is suffering through what may be the worst humanitarian crisis in its blood-soaked civil war…To avoid getting caught in the crossfire, nearly 900,000 people have left their homes since December.

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“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.”

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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.

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“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.”

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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.

High Number of Black Chicagoans Dying From Coronavirus, Data Shows
Data showed that among coronavirus deaths in Chicago where race or ethnicity were known, 72% were among black city residents, despite black Chicagoans being only 30% of the city’s overall population

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“While the global health community and countries are busy with curbing the spread of the covid-19, let us not forget the refugees and the displaced. It is our humanitarian duty, and it is also the right thing to do to prevent catastrophic morbidity and mortality in a population that is unable to deal with the pandemic effectively.”

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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.

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.

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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.

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“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.

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

Report from Gaza

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

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2019 Annual Report

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Rohingya Cyclone

Yemen Infographic

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