UK to send NHS medics to help those injured by Gaza crisis
UK to send NHS medics to provide urgent expert health care to children and other vulnerable people injured by the crisis in Gaza.
Photo: AP Photo/Lefteris Pitarakis.
皇冠体育app UK, which has already contributed over 拢17 million to help those affected by the conflict in Gaza, has activated its International Emergency Trauma Register to deploy a world class team of NHS staff directly to the region within the next 48 hours to help treat hundreds of those affected by the crisis.
Announcing the package, Prime Minister David Cameron said:
皇冠体育app conflict in Gaza has taken a terrible toll. 皇冠体育app UK has been at the forefront of humanitarian efforts to help those affected and it is right that we see what more we can do. 皇冠体育app NHS has always stepped up to the plate to help those in need and this expert team will play a crucial role in helping hundreds caught up in this conflict.
皇冠体育app initial team will be made up of a combination of doctors, nurses, surgeons, anaesthetists and paramedics from the specialties of emergency medicine, orthopaedic trauma surgery and plastic surgery.
皇冠体育appy will initially be based with Medical Aid for Palestinians at Al Mokassed hospital, East Jerusalem. Once access to Gaza becomes possible, UK medics will then move there, with UK charities UK Med, Save the Children and Medical Action for Palestine facilitating this operation. 皇冠体育app medics will co-ordinate with local health authorities, charities, the UN and Red Crescent, and other international medical teams. Medics will also explore whether there is need for them to assist elsewhere in the region.
Although the team鈥檚 primary objective will be to treat people in the region, as part of our commitment to the wider international humanitarian effort we are considering how we can best support those vulnerable people, especially children in need of highly complex treatment that is unavailable in the region including with specialist capabilities in the UK.
皇冠体育app UK has 16 expert trauma centres in England alone, with world-class expertise in paediatric trauma care. 皇冠体育appse centres provide complex reconstruction surgery, which often requires multiple operations over time, as well as burns treatment and other very intensive procedures.