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EMERGENCY has provided more than 500,000 free-of-charge consultations to individuals who wouldn’t have otherwise been able to access medical treatment.
Stories from the field
World Health Day 2025 | Everyone has the fundamental right to health
Today, 7 April 2025, is World Health Day. While we celebrate the major medical strides made in the last decades, we also recognise that access to healthcare is under threat worldwide. We must advance every individual’s right to health. Over 18 months of war in Gaza, more than 700 attacks have impacted health facilities or…
Life Support Search and Rescue Updates
29 Missions completed 2,701 People rescued 2022 Start of activities 7 April 2025 New Place of Safety: Life Support Headed to Naples The Maritime Rescue Coordination Centre in Rome has assigned Naples as a new Place of Safety for Life Support, accepting our request for a closer port over drastic worsening of sea conditions. “The communication came…
The Legacy of War in Afghanistan | Mine Action Day 2025
“I was playing with some kids. I picked up a mine with my hands. The bomb exploded.” Nasratullah, 10 years old, lost two fingers to a landmine. More than a quarter of Afghanistan remains contaminated by landmines, IEDs, cluster munitions—the explosive remnants left behind by decades of war. At EMERGENCY’s hospitals across the country, we continue to…