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A Third Wave of COVID-19 Has Overwhelmed Afghanistan
Since the beginning of June, a third wave of COVID-19 has overwhelmed Afghanistan’s state healthcare system, which is already under strain due to a deterioration in the conflict. According to sources, positives cases increased by 2,400 percent in June alone, while the ability to test the population is reduced: since the start of the pandemic,…
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This Time It’s to Uganda.
Medicine, Human Rights, Equality. Dr Stefano may be pictured leaning up against these words, but they mean so much more than just paint on a wall. Dr Stefano embodies these words, he upholds them, and he brings them to life in his boundless care for others. This compassion has taken him to many places, and…
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“Thank Goodness You Are Here.’
Sana’a, June 2021 A clean but slightly ageing meeting hall. Rasha stands by the lectern, listening to Michela talk and point her laser at the big screen. She takes quick notes on a pad so as not to miss a single phrase. When Michela finishes, Rasha turns to the audience, remains silent for a moment, then…
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World Blood Donor Day 2021
Salma, Salma, Zaina, Islam, Marwa, Sahar, Sahar, Amal, Hajer, Noor, Suwiba, Sara, Sara, Tibyan, and Samah. This is my team that runs the blood bank at the Salam Centre for Cardiac Surgery, and I am so proud of it. Ensuring the right to medical care relies on teamwork. But it also relies on blood donors,…
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“WHY GLOBAL SURGERY? WHY NOW?”
5 June, 2 to 3:30pm GMT Dr Marcela Ryan- Coker, EMERGENCY’s Medical Officer at the Goderich Surgical Centre in Sierra Leone, and InciSioN Sierra Leone present this important webinar, which includes a fantastic panel of speakers with a wide range of experience. The session will see anaesthetists, medical trainees and students come together to discuss…
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“EMERGENCY Is Open for People Here and Always Will Be, Inshallah”.
In Afghanistan, Alberto helps promoting a culture of peace in the way we know best: by providing free, quality healthcare to whoever needs it. He is a nurse and now our Medical Coordinator based at EMERGENCY’s Surgical Centre for War Victims in Kabul: “Over the last 20 years we have developed very good expertise in…
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This Is Our Daily Reminder that the Conflict Rages on.
? Afghanistan… Our hospitals are constantly busy. This is our daily reminder that the conflict rages on. A conflict with many belligerents, multiple interests, but one constant result: the destruction of human life. Civilians pay most of the price. We are there. To accompany the victims of this war and to tackle the isolation that…
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Yemen: Training Healthcare Workers in Pre-Hospital Trauma Care
The room is clean, quiet and well lit. Before us are doctors, nurses and ambulance drivers, but none of them are wearing their white coats. They’re in their own clothes – jackets and shirts, some of them even fancy ones. ‘What time is it?’ ‘Nine.’ ‘OK. Let’s get started.’ We’re inside Al-Thawra Hospital in Sana’a,…
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Peace Can Be Achieved If Our People Can Both Aspire For It And Are Given The Means To Achieve It.
Afghanistan has been in the midst of conflict for over four decades. EMERGENCY works across the country, and has been offering free, high-quality medical care to war victims in Kabul since April 2001. This is Said Hakim, Team Leader at EMERGENCY’s Kabul Surgical Centre. He began his journey with EMERGENCY in 2009, where he spent…
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Rossella Miccio, president of EMERGENCY, for the GOLA podcast
EMERGENCY’s president Rossella Miccio, joined the hosts of GOLA – an English-language podcast on Italian food – to discuss our support for vulnerable people in Italy during the COVID pandemic on an episode all about food, community and health. Whilst having always pursued the right to medical treatment around the world, “the COVID-19 reality has…