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COVID-19: Today we need another collective, humanitarian effort.
At this very hard time for all of us, the only way to get through the crisis is to follow the instructions of the health authorities and take responsibility for ourselves, the people close to us and above all, the weakest in society. Like you, I’m following the news with concern, but also in the…
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COVID-19: Our part for the Sikh community in the Latina area of Italy.
Europe is now at the centre of the COVID-19 pandemic, according to the WHO. EMERGENCY is doing its part, which includes trying to communicate awareness and combat the spread of misleading news about the virus. “Fake news is one of the main problems we are experiencing during this health emergency. People are often unable to…
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Zarbibi and Maysaa are two brave women.
People running through the hospital in serious conditions. Someone in shock. A wounded leg amputated in the operating theatre. Then contractions. When Zarbibi turned up at our Surgical Centre for War Victims in Kabul, she was pregnant and injured. Fighting was still raging in the capital, just a couple of miles from our hospital, and…
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Scientific contribution is not only a matter of research and numbers, but also sharing expertise among colleagues.
The Salam Centre for Cardiac Surgery doesn’t just help its own patients, but also provides vital scientific contributions to research in the cardiac field. That’s something we are very proud of! This year, our colleague Eva was invited ato speak at the annual Cardiac Imaging Conference organised by the Pan-African Society of Cardiology and the…
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EMERGENCY breaks down walls by building them
? As our President Rossella Miccio once wrote, there are walls, and then there are walls: walls of exclusion, tearing people apart, but also walls of inclusion, bringing people together, defeating differences and discrimination. EMERGENCY’s hospitals are made of walls, but the good kind: where inclusion starts from high-quality healthcare, free of charge, as a…
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‘I can’t begin to describe EMERGENCY.’
There are people who dedicate themselves to this organisation for years. Laura is one of them. She’s been with us since 2009. Laura is a nurse. We met her in a ward at the Salam Centre for Cardiac Surgery. What she said took me on a journey to the heart of EMERGENCY’s ideals. And as…
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The one thing I can tell them for certain is…
I see people walk through the office dressed smartly in jackets, ties and heels. What a change! Until today, all I’d seen around was work trousers and safe shoes. About 70 people have arrived in the last few days, all for interviews. We’re starting to recruit the local staff for our new hospital in Uganda.…
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Even in war, something powerful endures: love
Their names are Saja and Nabil. They are 20 and 23. They found each other in this camp, fell in love and eventually got married. In their previous lives, before they found safety in Ashti, they both lived, unknown to each other, in Dujail, a town of 100,000 people north of Baghdad. Nabil came to…
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‘We’re all the same, from the beginning till the end’ – Hamid, the imam working for peace in Ashti.
War has confronted him with the greatest possible challenges, destroying his house and worsening his health, yet he has chosen peace. At the camp in Ashti, in Iraqi Kurdistan, where he found refuge more than five years ago now, Hamid has set up a mosque that anyone can pray at. Six years ago, he and…
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Finally a hand that fits my body
The pain of war is difficult to heal and the wounds it leaves are almost impossible to fully mend. But providing dignity in the face of injury is so important. Because then, one can begin to hope again, in spite of everything. ‘It was a working day like any other. I was serving chai at…