Libya | EMERGENCY UK

From 1994 to 2024: EMERGENCY Celebrates 30 Years of Providing Free, High-Quality Care

May 15, 2024
EMERGENCY

“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…

Testimonies from Life Support on International Migrants Day

December 18, 2023
Search and Rescue (SAR)

For many people, migration means facing violence, abuse, death. In the central Mediterranean alone, over 28,000 people have disappeared since 2014 while attempting the crossing. At least 61 more people were victims of yesterday’s shipwreck off the coast of Libya, the…

Italy Should No Longer Work With The Libyan Coastguard When Rescuing People At Sea.

July 28, 2020
Press Release

Saving people at sea should be the responsibility of European countries. Every government should have a search and rescue service that is constant and reliable.

Italy: J. Has a Deathly Gaze. You Can Read in Her Eyes the Dramatic Events She’s Endured

November 20, 2017
Italy, Libya

J. is one of the survivors of the shipwreck on 6 November, 30 miles off the Libyan coast.

Libya: EMERGENCY Suspends Gernada Operations

August 31, 2016
Libya

Serious violence has forced EMERGENCY to suspend its operations in Gernada.

Rescuing migrants in the Mediterranean Sea

June 10, 2016
Sicily

"In front of me, in the middle of the sea between Italy and Libya, were hundreds of youngsters. We rescued them one by one."

PRESS RELEASE: EMERGENCY NGO & MOAS partner up to provide rescue and medical care to migrants in the Mediterranean

June 6, 2016
Press Release

6th June 2016 A joint operation by EMERGENCY NGO, humanitarian organisation which provides medical care, and Migrant Offshore Aid Station (MOAS) is leaving Malta today aboard the Topaz Responder, a search and rescue vessel which will patrol the world’s deadliest migrant crossing: the central Mediterranean. More than 2.000 people have already died in 2016 attempting…

LIBYA: ‘His life is more important than his leg’

May 11, 2016
Libya

Najib, 22, was brought to our hospital in ‎Gernada, ‪Libya, a week ago after a bullet wounded his leg.

ITALY: 200+ Migrants and Refugees land in Sicily, one on his birthday.

April 21, 2016
Italy

He came ashore with over 200 other migrants and refugees, but for him landing in Europe was especially momentous: it was his birthday.

EMERGENCY Surgical Centre in Gernada, Libya

LIBYA: Treating the Wounded and Training Doctors

April 6, 2016
Libya

In Libya, we are not only treating the wounded, but also training Libyan healthcare professionals.