Medical Teams International receives first grant ever from a foreign government

(PORTLAND, ORE. - March 22, 2007) Every day, thousands of Ugandan families wait in makeshift camps for medical help- help that often never arrives. This month, more of these families will receive medical attention with the help of a $90,000 grant from the Japanese government to Medical Teams International.

The grant will fund two mobile medical units, enabling Medical Teams International's staff and medical volunteers to reach an additional 90,000 people living in camps for internally displaced

by Jocelyn Stein

Fourteen months ago, a 7.6 earthquake directed worldwide attention to northern Pakistan. More than 3 million people lost their homes. More than 73,000 people lost their lives. More than a year later, many people still live in tents and temporary shelters that provide little warmth through the winter months in these small towns high in the Himalayas.

Since the earthquake struck, Northwest Medical Teams has partnered with various organizations to aid in relief efforts. Volunteers Ashley Johnson and Christine Hawrylow, both nurses

(Portland, Ore.-Dec. 15, 2006) Donnie Woodyard is working to bring pre-hospital emergency medicine to Sri Lanka-one EMT class at a time. When the tsunami hit Sri Lanka's shores nearly two years ago, the country did not have any emergency medical services available. Now, with Woodyard's leadership, Northwest Medical Teams has established a comprehensive EMS education program. A key part of this learning process is participation in an active ambulance service operating under the guidance of Northwest Medical Teams.

The Hikkaduwa Area Ambulance Service

(PORTLAND, ORE. - Nov. 27, 2006) Northwest Medical Teams, in partnership with The Darfur Relief Collaboration, has received a $1 million grant to help thousands of families fleeing the violence in Sudan.

The grant was awarded by the Office of Foreign Disaster Assistance and will support displaced families living in West Darfur. The United Nations, which calls Darfur the world's worst humanitarian crisis, estimates that 2.2 million people in the region are without access to adequate food, water and health care.

The Darfur Relief Collaboration includes

(PORTLAND, ORE-Oct. 5, 2006) Airline passengers can now bring hope and healing to hurting people living worlds away. Thanks to Alaska Airlines and Horizon Air, travelers can donate their accumulated Mileage Plan miles to Northwest Medical Teams. These gifts of air miles will help send critically needed medical volunteers and medicines around the globe.

The Alaska Airlines and Horizon Air Charity Miles program encourages airline customers to make a difference in the lives of the world's impoverished families by donating their Mileage Plan

(PORTLAND, ORE-August 11, 2006) With transportation routes confirmed, Northwest Medical Teams emergency supplies will soon reach thousands of Lebanese families who have fled ongoing violence in the Middle East.

Nearly $100,000 in antibiotics, surgical supplies and other critically needed medicines will be airlifted from Holland this Sunday, landing in Damascus, Syria, where they will be loaded on trucks for the 61-mile road trip to Beirut. Weeks of heavy bombing on the roads between Syria and Lebanon had made travel extremely dangerous.

"We have full permission from the Syrian

Fred Hesser, a physician's assistant, tells of the tetanus emergency--& how Northwest Medical Teams helped

by Kimberly Felton

No disaster response trip is routine. Expecting the unexpected becomes an art of flexibility.

Fred Hesser, a physician's assistant, continued perfecting that art on his recent trip to Java, Indonesia, as a volunteer with Northwest Medical Teams. He found the country had more help than expected, less immunizations than needed...& then there was the matter of the volcano.

Fred, accompanied by Ann Johnson, a nurse,

(PORTLAND, ORE. - June 2, 2006) Navigating heavy rain and sizeable debris, Northwest Medical Teams' volunteers are on the road today, headed to remote Indonesian villages where families await desperately needed medical care after last week's earthquake in Java.
The three medical specialists carried in $40,000 in urgently needed medicines when they arrived yesterday in Yogyakarta near the epicenter of the 6.3 earthquake. The Indonesian government is reporting more than 6,200 people dead in the disaster, another 200,000 homeless and more than 46,000 in urgent need of medical attention.

Team to bring critically needed medicines to quake zone
Northwest Medical Teams is sending highly trained medical volunteers to the island of Java on Tuesday in a race to help care for thousands of survivors of Saturday's massive earthquake centered near the Indonesian city of Yogyakarta.

A registered nurse from Gig Harbor, WA, a Florida physician, a nurse from Illinois and a physician's assistant from Montana will depart on Tuesday for Jakarta. The team will spend three weeks in the earthquake zone. Each will bring medical supplies of critically