Since August 2016, a significant part of the population of Central Italy has been severely tested. Repeated seismic activity, aggravated by an exceptional amount of snowfall even at low attitude, has forced the population to continuously confront the trauma caused by the earthquake. Then, in January of 2017, the population was again put under severe…

A few days ago in Khartoum, thirty doctors and nurses arrived from the most remote and problematic areas in Sudan, to spend five days with us and take part in training dedicated to the subject of mass casualties. What is a mass casualty? It is a huge influx of patients who arrive in A&E during…

IRAQ: A Country with More Than 10 Million Landmines According to the Landmine and Cluster Munition Monitor, Iraq is one of the most contaminated countries in the world when it comes to landmines and military debris. In the mid nineties, the border between Iran and Iraq, populated by Iraqi Kurds, was strewn with more 10…

Precisely one month ago, on the night of 26 January, a fire destroyed the makeshift camp for migrants in San Ferdinando, indicative of the social collapse that has taken place in the valley of Gioia Tauro. The shacks that burned have been replaced by ash and mud. Those that remain, of which there are around…

Neige is a little, six year old girl from Bangui, Central African Republic. Three years ago she was diagnosed with a congenital heart disease. She continued having an active life, playing with her friends and going to school, and successfully completed the first year of elementary school. By early 2017, the symptoms had worsened and…

“Bienheureux and Sacerdosse are twins. We visited them a few days ago at our Paediatric Centre in Bangui: they suffer from a congenital heart disease that has to be constantly monitored but, luckily, doesn’t require surgery – at least not for the moment. In the Central African Republic, there are no cardiac surgery hospitals. For…

Shipwreck survivors with first-hand experience of the brutal migration politics of the last few months. That’s who the 215 people who landed on Tuesday at the port of Augusta, Sicily, are. Three children were made orphans. The dead bodies of two young mothers arrived with them. We listened to B’s story. He is 14 years…

Khalid, one year old, was injured in the abdomen during a shooting in an area north of Lashkar-Gah, Afghanistan. He arrived last week and was admitted to our Surgical Centre for War Victims, which admitted 2,442 war-wounded patients in 2017. Helmand Province remains one of the most dangerous areas in the Country, but even in…

Samiullah, our colleague, a nurse at the Lashkar-Gah Hospital, was killed on Saturday in a gunfight. He found himself in the midst of a shootout whilst on the way to a wedding. He was not a soldier, he was not a fighter; he was a man just over 30 years old, about to celebrate his…

The war in Afghanistan, more and more intense, more and more bloody. The war in Iraq, with countless refugees and IDPs. Mosul, the biggest urban battlefield since World War 2. The work at Sicilian ports to support migrants as they land, the work to help earthquake victims in Central Italy, the work we do for…