EMERGENCY IN AFGHANISTAN: DRAWINGS FROM HELMAND, KABUL AND PANJSHIR
A New Exhibition, Coming to London this July.
Now We Are Taking Care Of Amir In The Ward, Where He Is Improving Every Day.
Over three weeks, our surgical team saw Amir in the operating theatre every 48 hours.
20th Anniversary of Anabah Maternity Centre
In June 2003, EMERGENCY opened a Maternity Centre in the Panjshir Valley, Afghanistan. Over the past 20 years, our team in Anabah, led by the women of Afghanistan, have admitted around 100,000 patients and delivered over 76,000 babies. Open 24…
“We work for EMERGENCY, because EMERGENCY works for our people.”
“Nursing here is a sacred job: our patients are our relatives, our people.” Gulbudin joined our Surgical Centre in Lashkar-Gah, Afghanistan, when it opened in 2004. After attending university, he worked as a nurse in the wards and the Outpatients…
Nurse Osman Cares for the Children in Kabul
Meet Mohamad Osman, one of the nurses here at EMERGENCY’s Surgical Centre in Kabul. Mohamad has been working at our hospital for 17 years, first in the intensive care unit and now as Team Leader of the children’s ward. He…
Bibi Came to Anabah for her 7th Pregnancy
At 40 years old, Bibi Hajar’s 7th pregnancy was not an easy one. She lives in Parian with her family, where she tends to their two cows and her husband earns his living by carrying stones. With the ongoing economic…
ACTIVITY REPORT 1994 – 2022: Cogs In The Wheel Of Peace
COGS IN THE WHEEL OF PEACE Introduction by Rossella Miccio, President of EMERGENCY, in the 2022 Report Frontiers – physical and moral. Like the ones invaded, criminally, by Russia on 24 February 2022, or the ones constructed to keep migrants…
“My family…are my biggest motivation for recovery.”
Ab Zahir was bringing groceries home on his motorcycle when he was hit by a car and immediately lost consciousness. A traffic policeman brought him to our Lashkar-Gah Surgical Centre. Originally set up for war victims, the needs of Helmand…
The Need for Diabetic Care in Afghanistan: Moqadas’s Story
On 30 March, EMERGENCY and CRIMEDIM released the report Access to Care in Afghanistan. While certain conditions like geographic mobility have improved in the country as fighting has subsided, many barriers remain to accessing care – especially for children like…
Little Rabiullah is Eating Again!
Rabiullah lives with his parents and four siblings in the Panjshir Valley, where the cold winter weather and rising prices are making life more and more difficult. When Rabiullah was just 15 months old, he had severe respiratory distress and…