10000000 patients treated since 1994
EMERGENCY provides free, high-quality healthcare to victims of war, poverty and landmines, alongside building hospitals and training local medical staff. Founded in 1994, EMERGENCY has treated 10 million people in 18 different countries and currently operates in Afghanistan, Central African Republic, Iraq, Italy, Sierra Leone, and Sudan.
EMERGENCY UK is the British affiliate of EMERGENCY. EMERGENCY UK supports EMERGENCY through advocacy, fundraising, and recruitment of medical staff.
Stories
January 23, 2020
I realise my plane is touching down on the runway in Italy. All I can do is repeat to myself the promise I’ve always made to our colleagues back in Afghanistan, and which I intend to keep: to return.
January 16, 2020
Taking things ‘small small’ sometimes makes you happier than you think. I’m certain, because I’ve felt it myself. I’ve spent so many days in Sierra Leone seeing people who are much happier than me, than us in Europe. They have barely anything, yet they’ve given me so much.
January 16, 2020
That is their right, as it is for any other human being.
January 14, 2020
Some of the hugs they give me literally make me quiver.
January 13, 2020
In October, Luca, Coordinator of our regional cardiac surgery programme, and Maria, a long-standing cardiologist at EMERGENCY, were in Asmara, the capital of Eritrea, for the first heart-screening misson at the new clinic at Orotta Hospital
January 10, 2020
There’s one thing I’m sure of and that’s the pure, gentle love that exists between a father and son. Just for a moment, it gives you a glimpse of beauty amid the horror of this war.
January 9, 2020
"Let’s look forward”. That is what we tell our patients every day, encouraging them to take back the life that war has snatched away. We help them to do just that.
January 8, 2020
We ask Europe to act immediately to avoid another war and to categorically refuse any support for military operations.