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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
“It is as if Salam had come to our house”: EMERGENCY’s Satellite Cardiology Clinics in Sudan
With over 12 million internally displaced persons (IDPs), the war in Sudan has generated what the UN has called the world’s most devastating displacement crisis. Before April 2023, Sudan was already hosting more than a million refugees from several African countries. When conflict broke between the Sudanese Armed Forces (SAF) and the Rapid Support Forces (RSF), millions more…
Afghanistan | Four Years on From August 2021
Four years since August 2021, peace in Afghanistan has meant a formal conclusion to war, but not to its consequences. Four years have passed since the international community withdrew from Afghanistan in August 2021. In this time, the country has witnessed: The deepening of a profound economic crisis The population’s continued impoverishment amidst widespread unemployment…
Gaza | “On the ground these words seem empty, they seem so far away.”
The morning of 19 May, an Israeli military operation struck Khan Younis, in southern Gaza. The same governorate where our clinic is located. Our Medical Coordinator Giorgio Monti sent an update: When there is talk of the end of the war, when there is talk of accords… well, on the ground these words seem empty,…