A little known war which, in just a few years, killed almost two million people. A post-war situation that was anything but post-war, with six million land mines patiently waiting for their victims.

In a country that has no doctors and no nurses, all murdered because educated people were an obstacle for the agrarian utopia of the Khmer Rouge revolution, even primary health care is an everyday emergency.

In 1998, in Battambang, one of the most heavily mined areas of the country, EMERGENCY built a Surgical Center dedicated to victims of war and land mines.

In Samlot, a heavily mined area on the border with Thailand, EMERGENCY opened five First Aid Posts and two mobile clinics in order to treat land mines victims as well as diseases such as malaria, tuberculosis and typhoid, which would have been left untreated otherwise.

Since 1998, in Cambodia EMERGENCY has treated more than 235,500 people.