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In Lashkar-Gah, Admissions Are Dominated by Road Traffic Accidents
On Wednesday 21 February, EMERGENCY’s Surgical Centre in Lashkar-Gah received 13 patients after a terrible road traffic accident in Helmand. Unfortunately, this isn’t a rare occurrence in Afghanistan. The Helmand region was once dominated by fighting, and our Surgical Centre was almost exclusively dedicated to treating victims of war. Now, civilian trauma patients make up…
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“For now, being alive is enough.”
“I left because of the war. One day there was a shooting in my city and my family and I fled in different directions. To this day I still don’t know what happened to them.” On board Life Support last year, Joseph* recounted his story. Fleeing his home in sub-Saharan Africa, Joseph went to Congo,…
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A Cradle in the Mountains
A Cradle in the Mountains Every month, around 600 babies are born in this hospital. For more than 20 years, families have travelled from all over Afghanistan to our Maternity Centre in the Panjshir Valley. At the specialised facility, opened in 2003 and expanded in 2016, we offer free, high-quality care to mothers and their…
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Our 2023
From Sudan to Afghanistan, from Uganda to the Mediterranean Sea, over 3,000 EMERGENCY staff have worked together to provide free, high-quality care around the world, every day. As we reflect on the past year and look ahead to the next, we want to say a massive thank you to all of our supporters, colleagues and…
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Testimonies from Life Support on International Migrants Day
For many people, migration means facing violence, abuse, death. In the central Mediterranean alone, over 28,000 people have disappeared since 2014 while attempting the crossing. At least 61 more people were victims of yesterday’s shipwreck off the coast of Libya, the latest we know of. And there are more deaths that no one knows about,…
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M., 14 YEARS OLD, FROM NYALA
M. lives in Nyala. He goes to school and plays football, like many children his age. About three years ago, his life changed: the first symptoms of a disease that would compromise two of his heart valves appeared. He visited several hospitals in Darfur seeking treatment, until he became a patient at our Nyala Paediatric…
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Providing Long-Term Care to People with Disabilities in Iraqi Kurdistan
Background Iraq is among the most heavily mined countries in the world: according to the Landmine Monitor 2022, over 1,200 km² of the territory is littered with landmines and over 500 km² more with improvised explosive devices (IEDs). In 2021, the United Nations Mine Action Service extracted 9,000 unexploded ordnances from the ground. Yet according…
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EMERGENCY has been helping Goodluck since he was just two days old.
Goodluck Cole’s father works three jobs while his mother, Lucy, is a full-time carer for the little boy. When Goodluck was just one day old, Lucy noticed that something was wrong. She was referred to EMERGENCY’s Surgical Centre in Goderich, Sierra Leone, where our doctors performed a colostomy on the baby because of a genetic…
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“I have never been to any hospital like EMERGENCY.”
Four-year-old Amol, left, poses for the camera with his friend, three-year-old Achiek. They met on the ward of the Children’s Surgical Hospital in Entebbe, after travelling from South Sudan with our Regional Programme for Paediatric Surgery. Like Achiek, whose story we shared earlier this year, Amol was burned as an infant. Boiling water that was…
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Nyala Staff Released, Paediatric Centre Indefinitely Closed
Our colleagues who were arrested last week at the Paediatric Centre in Nyala, South Darfur, have all been released with apologies from the Rapid Support Forces. They are shaken, but all are well. The Paediatric Centre, however, was looted, so we are forced to suspend activities until further notice. We are working to see if…