Our Programmes
Post-disaster recovery, clinical capacity building and healthcare training.
UK Charity · Registered 1202953
Humanitarian medicine,delivered by volunteers.
For over thirty years we have partnered with hospitals, universities and healthcare professionals to build clinical capacity for disaster medicine across India, Nepal, Bangladesh and Sri Lanka.
International Development Workshop
Facing the Future: New Challenges from Climate Change, Conflict, and Migration
Disaster Medicine & Global Health Security for Low- & Middle-Income Countries (LMICs)
16–18 November 2026India International Centre
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About Saving Lives International
Saving Lives International has evolved from humanitarian work started by Dr Peter Patel as a Rotarian Rotary Club of Birmingham in 1993. After 30 years of post-disaster recovery programmes focused on the health sector, Saving Lives International was established as an independent charity in May 2023.
Its objects are for the public benefit - the advancement of education of health and care professionals, and the relief and assistance of people affected by disaster in India, Nepal and beyond.
Read moreOur impact
Three decades of humanitarian aid, delivered as unpaid volunteers.
200,000
Lives impacted
150,000
Volunteer hours
50+
Partner institutions
450
Healthcare volunteers
A partnership of more than 50 institutions and organisations and 450 healthcare professionals and businesses involved in delivery of humanitarian aid as unpaid volunteers - covering India, Bangladesh, Nepal and Sri Lanka.
IndiaNepalBangladeshSri Lanka
Flagship programme
Faculty of Disaster Medicine
The Faculty of Disaster Medicine – India and Nepal (FDMIN) is the flagship UK programme established in 2015 in partnership with the National Association of Primary Care (NAPC), development support from UK Health Security Agency (formerly Public Health England) and the Pre-Hospital Emergency Care Faculty of the Royal College of Surgeons, Edinburgh.
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Our programmes
Building capacity, from response to recovery.
Timeline of Disaster Medicine Faculty Development
Nine pilot 'training of trainers' courses across Pune, Chennai, Delhi, Kochi and Madurai.
Covid-19 Pandemic Support
Pandemic response and disaster-medicine training restart across India and Nepal.
Our projects
Three decades of on-the-ground response.
1993
September 1993 – Kilhari/Latur Earthquake, Maharashtra
Built and equipped a Primary Health Care Centre at Jawalga Pomadevi, Latur, supporting recovery for 17 villages.
1996
1996 – Latur APPI Trauma Centre managed by Swami Vivekanand Charitable Trust
1998
Gujarat Cyclone – 1998
1998
Bangladesh Flood – 1998
1999
Orissa cyclone – 1999
2001
Gujarat Earthquake – 2001
2000
2000-2002 Disaster Preparedness and Mitigation programmes
2002
November 2002: Goa Training Programme
Founder
"The knowledge and expertise of disaster medicine is virtually absent in the majority of low- and middle-income countries. Our mission is to change that."
Dr Peter Patel
Founder & International Project Director