Becky Platt, ACP and volunteer with UK Med, shares her experiences providing medical aid to children in various parts of the world, notably focusing on her time in the Kutupalong refugee camp in Bangladesh during a diphtheria outbreak.
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Resources:
- ‘There Is No Hope’: Death and Desperation Take Over the World’s Largest Refugee Camp
- Real-time analysis of the diphtheria outbreak in forcibly displaced Myanmar nationals in Bangladesh – National Library of Medicine
- Diphtheria – Centers for Disease Control and Prevention
- Ethical Obligations Regarding Short-Term Global Health Clinical Experiences: An American College of Physicians Position Paper – Annals of Internal Medicine
- Ethical Conduct of Humanitarian Medical Missions