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‘From the Sea to the City’ Campaign: EMERGENCY is Joining Forces.
On #WorldRefugeeDay, we are glad to announce that EMERGENCY is joining forces with a network of partners across Europe as part of ‘From the Sea to the City’. This campaign, involving sea rescue organisations and civil society, aims to create awareness and demand a new human rights-based migration and refugee policy. The ongoing crisis in…
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Goodbye Doctor Anton.
We struggle to believe it, but Dr Anton is no longer with us. He was an excellent and tireless surgeon, he spent his time with EMERGENCY between the Kabul and Lashkar-Gah Surgical Centres in Afghanistan. A war surgeon who taught his work to so many younger students, with perseverance and determination. He left us today…
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Today, EMERGENCY Turns 26 Years Old.
‘Who ever would’ve thought I’d be treated by EMERGENCY in Bergamo?!’ said Elio to me last week. He’s a patient in the intensive care ward at the field hospital that we helped build and run in Bergamo, northern Italy. And thinking about it now, on EMERGENCY’s 26th birthday, I don’t believe any of the people…
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International Workers’ Day: “We stay here for you. Please stay home for us”.
“We stay here for you. Please stay home for us”. ICU ward, Salam Centre for Cardiac Surgery, Khartoum. This special moment arrives just in time to celebrate International Workers’ Day. Behind their masks, our staff are motivated to continue ensuring patients receive their right to care. This image shows that, although the setting and some…
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Ramadan Kareem to All Muslims Around the World
On this special day, the beginning of Ramadan, our president Rossella has a message to all Muslims around the world. We join her and say: Ramadan Kareem! May the spirit of fraternity and commitment encouraged by the holy month be an example to us all as we face this global challenge. Let’s work towards a…
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Solidarity includes a sense of responsibility towards everyone else.
“We really need to make sure that the entire system is organised as if we were all infected, as everyone could spread the virus. So, protection of everybody, of every segment, department within hospitals.” Rossella Miccio Yesterday evening, our president Rossella was hosted by InsideStory, Al Jazeera programme, to discuss how the Italian experience of…
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International Day of Elimination of Racial Discrimination
Today is the International Day for the Elimination of Racial Discrimination. This moment of global vulnerability encourages us all to feel human. Barriers and intolerance disrupt our coexistence and add nothing to our lives but hatred, loss, and violence. We believe in equality. As a medical charity, equality to us means that every human being has the…
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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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They were asking me if this was really Italy
Before Open Arms docked at the port in Messina yesterday evening, 15 January, our doctor Giorgio had been working on the ship with its crew and keeping us up to date every day on the state of the migrants on board. We had rescued more than 100 people from the Mediterranean in two boatloads and…
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…We begin 2020 with a promise