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We Are Here To Stay.
Over 21 years, war reached every corner of Afghanistan. And so did we. Since 1999, our clinics across rural areas have provided over 6 million outpatient visits. In this video, we bring you there, to the Afghanistan heartland that we know well. We are here to ensure rural communities have access to healthcare. We are…
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EMERGENCY’s Politruck in Moldova to Support the Victims of Ukraine’s Conflict
Our Politruck, the largest of EMERGENCY’s Mobile Outpatient Clinics, has left for Moldova. It will reach the ground to offer healthcare assistance to thousands of people – elderly, women and children- who are fleeing from the war in Ukraine. In this first phase of EMERGENCY’s intervention, our field team will provide nursing care, basic medicine…
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An Emergency Team Is On Ukraine’s Borders With Romania And Moldova To Assess Humanitarian Needs And Evaluate Potential Projects To Provide Care To Those Affected By The Conflict.
An EMERGENCY team is on Ukraine’s borders with Romania and Moldova to assess humanitarian needs and evaluate potential projects to provide care to those affected by the conflict. “We are assessing all possibilities for EMERGENCY’s intervention both inside and on the borders of Ukraine,” says Rossella Miccio, president of EMERGENCY. “Our contribution must be effective.…
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International Women’s Day 2022
©️ Stefanie Glinski A team. A team of women. A team of Afghan women. A team of Afghan women dedicated to providing medical and surgical care at our hospital in Kabul. To all women who make EMERGENCY. To all women. EMERGENCY commits to you, and to the fight for equality. Women’s rights are…
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Providing Vital Care for the Afghan People.
“There are of course patients that will never leave you. We have a boy hospitalised at the moment. He was traveling with his family to a celebration and took a public bus. An explosion happened, involving mother, father, daughter, and him, the son. The boy lost one leg and fractured the other – he won’t…
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Today, He Is an Enterprising Father and, Above All, a Happy Man.
Rizgar was just 21 years old when unexploded ordnance changed his life forever. “It was on my land,” Rizgar, a farmer, explains. “I wanted to remove it to protect my animals.” In the end, he was the one that was injured. “I lost my left hand and my leg was badly hurt”. Rizgar’s family did…
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A Family’s Story, Which We Have Just Become Part of.
“We are here because we followed the advice of our neighbours. They told us, ‘go to Entebbe, EMERGENCY’s hospital is the best for treating children. There you can solve Elijah’s problem.’” Elijah was born with a small mass on his left arm. Birth anomalies are very common, but many people around the world are unable…
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We are Here for Jalal. We are Here for all Afghans.
“The hospital has never closed its operating theatres… Among the patients is Jalal, 10 years old and with only one leg… ‘I was shot by mistake, by accident’, he says. ‘I miss my parents.’” EMERGENCY’s healthcare network across Afghanistan remains open, despite everything. The number of war injuries may have decreased, but this is a…
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I Started to Believe in All My Possibilities.
I was born with several congenital deformities, which affected my left leg and both hands. My disability has caused me many difficulties in my life. I remember feeling stressed when I was very young, every time another child stopped to stare at my body. At the age of 34, EMERGENCY’s Rehabilitation and Social Reintegration Centre…
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Do You Remember Mamadou From Guinea?
We received a very special photo from Guinea! Do you remember Mamadou? We introduced him to you three years ago when we told you the story of his 6,000-kilometre-long journey from Guinea to our Salam Centre for Cardiac Surgery in Sudan. He received heart surgery on his third birthday. Three more years have passed since.…