IRAQ
10.3 million people in need of medical assistance.
Stories from the field
International Day of Persons with Disabilities 2024: Jamila’s Story
It was 1991 and Jamila was nine years old. When a mine exploded, she suffered injuries all over her body, with the most serious affecting her right leg. Jamila is a patient at our Rehabilitation and Social Reintegration Centre in Sulaymaniyah, Iraqi Kurdistan. Here, we provide prostheses, physiotherapy and check-ups to help people like Jamila.…
From 1994 to 2024: EMERGENCY Celebrates 30 Years of Providing Free, High-Quality Care
“The hospital of Kigali is deserted. Patients, doctors, nurses, almost all have been killed. There are five of us, but we will soon be joined by others.” In 1994, in the midst of the Rwandan genocide, Dr Gino Strada and the first EMERGENCY team began to work. Together, they restored the surgical and obstetrics and…