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EMERGENCY
“All human beings are born free
and equal in dignity and rights”.
The acknowledgment of this principle
“is the foundation of freedom,
justice and peace in the world”.
Universal Declaration of Human Rights
Paris, 10th December, 1948, Article 1 and Preamble
In today’s conflicts,
90% of the victims are civilians.
EMERGENCY provides, high quality and free
of charge medical and surgical assistance
to victims of war, landmines and poverty.
All EMERGENCY facilities are designed, built and run by specialized international personnel,
who provide training for local staff.
Uzbekistan China
Tajikistan
Turkmenistan
Shebergan
Anabah
Kabul
Afghanistan
Lashkar-gah
Iran Pakistan
EMERGENCY
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Anabah, the Panjshir valley
Surgical and Medical Centre
Opened: December 1999
Activities:
Surgery for war and landmine victims
Emergency and Trauma Surgery
Internal Medicine
Paediatrics
Facilities:
Emergency Department, Outpatient Department, 2
Operating Theatres, Sterilization, Intensive Care Unit,
Surgical-Medical Wards, Physiotherapy, Radiology,
Laboratory and Blood Bank, Pharmacy, Teaching
rooms, Playroom, Auxiliary facilities, Maintenance
Department.
Number of Beds: 70
Local staff: 197
Up to December 2007:
Admissions: 14,627
Outpatient consultations: 61,204
Surgical operations: 10,387
Lashkar-gah
Surgical Centre
for War Victims
Opened: September 2004
Activities:
Surgery for war and landmine victims
Emergency and Trauma Surgery
Facilities:
Emergency Department, Outpatient Department, 2
Operating Theatres, Sterilization, Intensive Care Unit,
Surgical Wards, Physiotherapy, Radiology, Laboratory
and Blood Bank, Pharmacy, Teaching rooms,
Playroom, Auxiliary facilities, Maintenance
Department.
Number of Beds: 70
Local staff: 184
Up to December 2007:
Admissions: 5,688
Outpatient consultations: 37,547
Surgical operations: 6,066
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Afghanistan
First Aid Posts (FAP’s)
and Primary Health Clinics
Number: 29
Locations:
Ahangaran, Anabah, Anjuman, Bagram, Bazarak,
Changaram, Charikar, Dara, Darband, Dashty Rewat,
Grishk, Gulbahar, Horaty, Kapisa, Khinch, Kohi-safi,
Koklamy, Logar, Mirbachakot, Paryan, Rokha, Said
Khil, Sangi Khan, Sayad and Shutul (where a mobile
clinic is also operative). EMERGENCY also offers
health care at the “Juvenile Rehabilitation Centre”
and the “Tahi Mashkan” orphanage in Kabul.
Local staff: 186
Up to December 2007:
Patients transferred: 14,777
Outpatient consultations: 1,402,570
Prison Programmes
Duab Prison: 694 patients examined and treated
from 2001 to 2003
Shebergan Prison: 13,338 patients examined and
treated from May 2002 to June 2004
Prisons in Kabul (Governmental Jail, Investigation
Department, Pol-e-Charki): 130,998 patients
examined and treated up to December 2007
Local staff: 24
Lashkar-gah Prison: 1,880 patients examined and
treated from February 2006 to December 2007
Local staff: 2
Social Programme
Carpet Factory
April 2003 - April 2007
Location: Anabah, the Panjshir valley
Teachers: 7
Weavers: 29
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Cambodia
EMERGENCY’s Surgical Centre for war victims was
established in Battambang in 1998, to provide free
high quality surgical assistance and rehabilitation
for victims of war and landmines. The Centre also
provides plastic and reconstructive surgery for
patients affected by polio, congenital malformations
and burns.
Laos
Thailand
Battambang
Samlot Cambodia
Phnom Penh
Vietnam
Gulf of Thailand
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Battambang
Surgical and Trauma Centre
Opened: July 1998
Activities:
Surgery for war and landmine victims
Emergency and Trauma Surgery
Orthopaedic, Plastic and Reconstructive Surgery
Facilities:
Emergency Department, Outpatient Department, 3
Operating Theatres, Sterilization, Intensive Care Unit,
Surgical Wards, Physiotherapy, Radiology, Laboratory
and Blood Bank, Pharmacy, Teaching rooms, Play-
room, Auxiliary facilities, Maintenance Department.
Number of Beds: 107
Local staff: 189
Up to December 2007:
Admissions: 18,909
Outpatient consultations: 66,432
Surgical operations: 20,330
O’Tatiak
First Aid Post (FAP)
Opened: 1999
Local staff: 4
Up to December 2007:
Patients referred: 2,997
Outpatient consultations: 189,398*
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Iraq
EMERGENCY has been working in Iraq since March
1995, initially in the village of Choman on the
Iraq/Iran border.
Turkey
Choman
Erbil
Sulaimaniya
Syria Iran
Iraq
Baghdad
Jordan
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Sulaimaniya
Rehabilitation Centre
Opened: February 1998
Activities:
Physical Rehabilitation
Prostheses and orthoses production
Facilities:
Patient Wards, Physiotherapy, Indoor Swimming
Pool, Orthopaedic and Prosthetic Workshops,
Auxiliary facilities.
Number of Beds: 41
Local staff: 92
Up to December 2007:
Admissions: 4,425
Upper limb Prostheses: 642
Lower limb Prostheses: 4,223
Orthoses: 640
Sulaimaniya
Social Reintegration Programme
Opened: 1998
Activities:
Vocational training and development of small busi-
ness cooperatives for the physically disabled
Facilities:
Classrooms, Vocational training workshops
(professional sewing, leatherwork, woodwork, light
carpentry, shoemaking), Auxiliary facilities.
Trainees completing the programme: 561
Cooperatives set up: 186
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Sierra Leone
In late 2000 EMERGENCY initiated a Surgical
Programme to assist war victims. An abandoned
medical clinic in the district of Goderich, on the
outskirts of Freetown, was transformed and
expanded into a Surgical Centre, by adding new
buildings. This is where EMERGENCY provides
treatment to war trauma, and orthopaedic patients.
The admission criteria have now been expanded to
include all life-threatening surgical emergencies.
Guinea
Sierra Leone
Freetown
Goderich
Atlantic Ocean
Liberia
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Goderich
Surgical Centre
Opened: November 2001
Activities:
Emergency and trauma surgery
Orthopaedic and reconstructive surgery
Facilities:
Emergency Department, Outpatient Department, 2
Operating Theatres, Sterilization, Intensive Care Unit,
Patient Wards, Physiotherapy, Radiology,
Laboratory and Blood Bank, Pharmacy, Teaching
rooms, Playroom, Auxiliary Facilities.
Number of Beds: 99
Local staff: 256
Up to December 2007:
Admissions: 13,423
Outpatient consultations: 114,782
Surgical operations: 10,784
Goderich
Paediatric Centre
Opened: April 2002
Activities:
Paediatrics
Treatment of tropical and infectious diseases
Facilities:
Outpatient Department, Medical Ward, Technical
and Auxiliary facilities shared with the Goderich
Surgical Centre.
Number of Beds: 16
Local staff: 8
Up to December 2007:
Admissions: 4,917
Outpatient consultations: 72,396
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Sri Lanka
Following an assessment carried out by a survey
team a few days after the tsunami in December
2004, EMERGENCY supplied the Kalutara General
Hospital with surgical instruments and medical
consumables, enabling it to resume activities.
Bay of Bengal
Punochchimunai
Colombo
Kalutara
Sri Lanka
Gulf of Mannar
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Sudan
From spring 2004 to summer 2005, EMERGENCY
provided assistance to the hospitals of Mellit and Al
Fashir in North Darfur. Within the compound of the
Al Fashir hospital, EMERGENCY built a surgical block
composed of 2 operating theatres, a sterilisation
room and a 20-bed ward.
Khartoum Eritrea
Chad
SUDAN
Ethiopia
Central African
Republic
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Mayo, Khartoum
Paediatric Centre
Opened: December 2005
Activities:
Paediatrics
Paediatric First Aid
Facilities:
Outpatient Clinics, Patient Ward, Laboratory,
Auxiliary services.
Number of Beds: 6
Local staff: 24
Up to 31 December 2007:
Outpatient consultations: 39,275
Patients transferred: 547
Patients admitted for observation: 1,386
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Khartoum
The Salam Centre for
Cardiac Surgery
Opened: April 2007
Activities:
Paediatric Cardiac Surgery
Adult Cardiac Surgery
Cardiology
Facilities:
3 Operating Theatres, Intensive Care Unit,
Subintensive Care Unit, Surgical Wards, Outpatient
Departments, Catheterization Laboratory,
Ultra Sound, Radiology, Laboratory and Blood Bank,
Physiotherapy, Pharmacy, Technical
and Auxiliary facilities, Repairs & Maintenance,
Guesthouse for relatives of patients.
Local staff: 308
Number of Beds: 63
Up to 31 December 2007:
Admissions: 477
Outpatient consultations: 4,902
Cardiology examinations: 2,430
Open heart surgeries: 324
Diagnostic and interventional cardiology
procedures: 147
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Italy
Serious violations of human rights daily affect the
lives of migrants coming to Italy. In April 2006
EMERGENCY opened an Outpatients clinic in
Palermo to integrate the services provided by the
National Health System and to improve access to
treatment for migrants. The services provided in
the clinic include: primary health care, paediatrics,
dermatology, ophthalmology, ENT as well as social
assistance.
Palermo
Programme for Migrants
Outpatient Clinic
Opened: April 2006
Activities:
Primary Health Care
Paediatrics
Dermatology
Dentistry
Ophtalmology
Ear Nose and Throat Specialist
Facilities:
Dental clinic, Optical clinic, 2 consultation rooms,
Auxiliary facilities.
Local staff: 6
Up to December 2007:
Outpatient consultations: 11,889
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COMPLETED PROGRAMMES
EMERGENCY builds and runs permanent facilities the two-month mission the EMERGENCY team 2003/04 - EMERGENCY sent a surgical team
and trains national medical staff. worked in the Mekane Hiwet Hospital in Asmara, to work in the orthopaedic department of Jenin
The facilities are transferred to the local health treating victims of the war between Ethiopia Public Hospital, Palestine. EMERGENCY also built
authorities once they reach clinical and financial and Eritrea. a new orthopaedic ward, a new department of
independence. physiotherapy, a hospital kitchen and cafeteria.
2001 - EMERGENCY built a Prosthesis and EMERGENCY was also responsible for training
1994 - EMERGENCY renovated and reopened the Rehabilitation Centre in Diana, in northern the Palestinian medical staff.
surgical department of Kigali hospital in Rwanda. Iraq. The Centre has been transferred to the
Over a period of four months, surgical assistance management of the local health authorities. 2004 - EMERGENCY supported the people of
was provided for more than 600 victims of Falluja, Iraq, during the seige of the city which
war and landmines. A maternity ward was also 2003/04 - EMERGENCY supplied drugs to ended in May. Relief items, water and medical
reopened, where over 2,500 patients received the “Casa de la mujer”, a network of women’s supplies were given to community leaders and to
medical and surgical assistance. centres to assist women suffering from cancer the local public hospital.
and diabetes, in Nicaragua.
1996/2005 - EMERGENCY built a Surgical 2004/05 - EMERGENCY rebuilt and equipped the
Centre in Sulaimaniya, in northern Iraq, in order 2003 - EMERGENCY supplied Al-Kindi Hospital in Emergency Surgical Department of the university
to provide assistance to the victims of war and Baghdad, Iraq, with generator fuel, medicines and hospital of Al Fashir in North Darfur, Sudan. The
landmines. The facility includes units for burns medical consumables. Tons of medical supplies structure includes a surgical block and a 20-bed
and spinal injury patients. In 2005 the Centre were also donated to the public hospital in ward. The Department was transferred to the
and the 22 First Aid Posts, connected to it, were Karbala, south of Baghdad. Ministry of Health in August 2005.
transferred to the local health authorities.
2003 - EMERGENCY set up a Prosthesis 2005 - EMERGENCY supplied Kalutara General
1998/2005 - EMERGENCY built a Surgical Centre and Rehabilitation Centre in Medea, Algeria. Hospital, in Sri Lanka, with surgical instruments
in Erbil, in northern Iraq, to provide assistance An existing clinic within the public hospital and medical supplies in order to boost clinical
to the victims of war and landmines. The facility compound was renovated and equipped. activities.
includes units for burns and spinal injury patients. EMERGENCY trained Algerian staff to provide
In 2005 the Centre was transferred to the specialized care for the physically disabled.
management of the local health authorities. The Centre, named Amal (“hope” in Arabic),
was transferred to the local health authorities
1999 - EMERGENCY supported the Jova in 2004.
Jovanovic Zmaj orphanage in Belgrade, Serbia.
2003 - EMERGENCY built a Prosthesis and
1999/2003 - EMERGENCY established 5 First Rehabilitation Centre in Dohuk, northern
Aid Posts (FAPs) in the district of Samlot, in Iraq. The Centre has been handed over to the
Cambodia, in order to provide assistance to management of the local health authorities.
the victims of landmines. In 2003 the FAPs of
O’Rotkroh, Chamlong Kouy, Tasanh and O’Chom 2003 - EMERGENCY refurbished two Health
were transferred to the local health authorities. Centres in Benguela Province, Angola, and
equipped them with medicines and medical
2000 - EMERGENCY sent a surgical team to consumables. EMERGENCY ran the programme
Eritrea in response to a request from the Italian and trained Angolan medical staff untill February
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EMERGENCY’s Financial Resources
EMERGENCY was founded in Italy in 1994 as a nonprofit organization to provide treatment and rehabilitation
to the victims of wars and land mines.
Since 1999 it has been officially recognized by the Italian Ministry of Foreign Affairs as a Non Governmental
Organization (NGO).
Since February 2005 EMERGENCY is present in the USA with groups of volunteers all around the Country.
EMERGENCY is also active in the UK since December 2007.
From May 1994 to December 2006 (the most recently completed fiscal year) the total financial resources
of EMERGENCY were 113,359,750 Euros. The average administrative overhead was 6.01% of total budget.
Financial resources managed by EMERGENCY to date:
Year EURO
1994 435,977 2000 6,200,616
2006 14,716,032
2007 22,500,00 *
*Estimated balance
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DONATIONS
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