Tony Redmond Collection
Date range: 1980-2010
Medium: Archive
Professor Anthony Redmond is a humanitarian, medical doctor, Emeritus Professor of Emergency Medicine at Keele University and of International Emergency Medicine at the University of Manchester. He is the founder of the South Manchester Emergency Rescue Team (SMART), and UK-Med, the UK’s Emergency Medical Team (EMT) who provide medical humanitarian assistance in response to international emergencies.
This collection consists of personal ephemera, correspondence, mission reports, articles and newspaper clippings, uniforms, photographs and videos. It covers the whole course of Redmond’s emergency medical career, from the 1980s to 2000s, during which he worked with a range of organisations including the United Nations (UN), the World Health Organisation (WHO) and the UK Overseas Development Administration (ODA), including on the following missions:
- Providing medical care in Armenia following the 1988 earthquake, to Kurdish refugees at the Iran/Iraq border in 1991, in Macedonia in 1992-1993, and in Cabo Verde following a volcanic eruption in 1995.
- Providing emergency aid and rebuilding healthcare systems during and after the Yugoslav Wars, including in Sarajevo, during the siege of Sarajevo 1992-1996, and in Pristina, Kosovo, 1999-2000.
- Carrying out assessment missions for medical needs in Kigali, Rwanda in 1997, and in Sierra Leone in 2000.
- Assisting in medical airlifts of patients to England from the island of Montserrat in 1997 following a volcanic eruption, and from Sarajevo in 1995.
- Acting as the site medical officer at the Lockerbie air crash in 1988.
- Helping to establish the Emergency Medical Team (EMT) and United Nations Disaster Assessment and Coordination (UNDAC) programmes.
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