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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
Every Heartbeat Matters | EMERGENCY USA Attends Partner Summit
Last week, an EMERGENCY delegation had the opportunity to attend the Every Heartbeat Matters Partner Summit - hosted by Edwards Lifesciences and the Edwards Lifesciences Foundation - alongside other global partners, clinicians, and advocates who share our belief that access to high-quality cardiac care should never depend on where a person is born. Throughout the…
D.C. Event | Redefining Quality Care in Conflict and Post-Conflict Settings
How do you deliver quality healthcare in the midst of war? What does it take to rebuild health systems in its aftermath? How do individual and population level health needs change throughout? Join EMERGENCY USA at the National Press Club for a dynamic conversation including frontline perspectives on leadership, trauma care, and health system resilience.…
“I believed in serving humanity” | 10 years on from the Ebola crisis in Sierra Leone
When Ebola hit Sierra Leone in early 2014, it reached one of the poorest countries in the world. The limited healthcare infrastructure and workforce had already been devastated by a decade-long civil war that had killed upwards of 70,000 people, maimed a further 20,000 and left two million displaced. Healthcare workers were among the most vulnerable frontline workers, and medical…