Jamil Gul was on his way to a phone repair shop when he was stabbed by robbers. When the 21-year-old arrived at our Surgical Centre in Kabul, he was quickly taken to the operating theatre for emergency surgery to repair…
The operation saved his life. Seven-year-old Omar lives in Afghanistan, a country still recovering from more than four decades of war. In April, Omar and two of his family members were rushed to the Kabul Surgical Centre after a landmine…
Gino Strada was a man of peace, turning medical gestures into acts of equality and justice. Striving, in every idea and each project, for the rights of all. We miss you Gino. Thank you. Gino Strada, 1948-2021. Illustration by…
Ajmal and his nephew were riding a motorcycle to visit his father in the hospital when they were in a road traffic accident. An ambulance brought Ajmal from a hospital in Wardak province to EMERGENCY’s Surgical Centre in Kabul. The…
At the Children’s Surgical Hospital in Entebbe, we like to ask our young patients what they want to be when they grow up.
In June 2003, EMERGENCY opened a Maternity Centre in the Panjshir Valley, Afghanistan. Over the past 20 years, our team in Anabah, led by the women of Afghanistan, have admitted around 100,000 patients and delivered over 76,000 babies. Open 24…
The children were playing in the garden when the IED exploded. They had found an old metal device that they said looked like a big bullet, and threw it away. 13-year-old Mohammad and his sister, 4-year-old Shamsia, were the closest.…
