EMERGENCY: Our President Rossella Miccio, on High-Quality Healthcare
how low-resource countries can benefit from healthcare centres of excellence,
how low-resource countries can benefit from healthcare centres of excellence,
It’s not every day that we get to catch up with a former patient and hear about their new life.
Founding EMERGENCY was a gut reaction, not just a mental decision.
EMERGENCY doesn’t just mean war surgery – it means medicine, rights and equality.
A couple of inches to the left or the right, and the shrapnel could have hit his head, or a vital organ, but fortunately he had the best protection any baby boy can have: his mother.
Sidra is nine years old, she lives in Mosul, Iraq, and we think she should be able to run around and play, just like any other girl her age.
It’s EMERGENCY’s very own 007, built in 1998 in the labs at the Centre by amputee and disabled former patients.
War may have brought him here - but it didn't take away his spirit.