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First new medal winner recalls ‘extreme devastation’

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The new type of medal, conferred by King Charles, was announced by the Cabinet Office in July 2023 as a way of honouring those deployed by the UK to assist in major international disasters.

The first batch of 30 winners has been announced, with the Chancellor of the Duchy of Lancaster, Pat McFadden, calling them “shining examples of public service” who have shown “selfless dedication to saving lives”.

Anna went to Dern in Libya in September 2023 to lead the UK Emergency Medical Team, in the wake of floods in which an estimated 20,000 people lost their lives, a situation she describes as “extreme devastation”.

She has worked in Ukraine and also in Turkey after the earthquake, but she says arriving in Dern had been shocking. “We fell completely silent.”

The bursting of dams had “swept whole neighbourhoods into the sea”.

“Just the power of seven-metre waves coming down in the middle of the night into a city. I think you can know intellectually what that might be like, but actually seeing it for real, I don’t think I’ll ever forget that,” she says.


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