At our Paediatric Centre in Port Sudan, the only hospital located in one of the poorest areas of the city, we offer free and high-quality care to children up to the age of 14.    Port Sudan is situated along the shore of the Red Sea, and hosts Sudan’s most important harbour. Living conditions are very…

So many patients have travelled up and down these steps over the years, becoming familiar with their prostheses.  Jabar is one of them.   In November 2004, he was on his way home from selling his crops in Kirkuk when a car close to him suddenly exploded. That tragic moment caused him to lose both legs. Jabar…

23 years ago, EMERGENCY opened a First Aid Post in Afghanistan. It was established in Gulbahar, 70 kilometres north of Kabul, to treat and stabilise people with war injuries. From that first clinic, we now run a network of over 40 First Aid Posts and Primary Healthcare Centres connected by a 24/7 ambulance service. EMERGENCY’s…

On International Day of Persons with Disabilities, we want to share Stara’s story: “I stepped on the mine, it exploded, and everything went dark… screams around me, blood everywhere, I woke up in the hospital and I found myself without a leg.” This is how many lives, like Stara’s, take an abrupt turn in Iraq…

“I have witnessed thousands of people return back to their daily life and community through EMERGENCY’s services. But thousands more are waiting for our help. As part of the big family we are, we must always remember this, and never stop.” Faris, has always been determined to do more. He is now the Director at our Rehabilitation…

Mohammed is six years old. It took four days for him to travel with his father and grandfather from his home on the border with Chad to arrive at EMERGENCY’s Paediatric Centre in Nyala, Sudan. His father, Alsadic, tells us, "I had heard about a hospital here in Nyala where children are treated free of…

Malang and his parents have experienced the devastating legacy that war leaves behind. They were mowing grass to feed their goats. Unbeknownst to them, there was unexploded ordnance in the ground. The blast severely injured Malang. They arrived at our First Aid Post in Grishk. One of our ambulances then brought Malang to our Surgical…

EMERGENCY recently conducted its first cardiac screening mission in Somalia. Our cardiologist Mimmo, and Ensaf, Regional Programme Assistant, travelled to Mogadishu to carry out cardiological examinations and identify patients to undergo free-of-charge surgical treatment at EMERGENCY’s Salam Centre for Cardiac Surgery in Khartoum, Sudan. “The patients we saw are between 8 and 35 years old,”…

“Seeing disabled people arrive in wheelchairs or on crutches, then discharging them from rehab and seeing them go home with a prosthesis – those are the moments that most stay with me.” Burhan is a physiotherapist at EMERGENCY’s Rehabilitation and Social Reintegration Centre in Sulaymaniyah, Iraq: “Rehabilitation is a turning point. It starts from physiotherapy,…