Activity Report 1994-2008

EMERGENCY
Every year war and poverty destroy the lives
of millions of people.

In today’s conflicts,
90% of the victims are civilians.
EMERGENCY
is an independent and neutral organisation.

EMERGENCY provides high quality and free of

charge medical and surgical assistance to victims
of war, landmines and poverty.

EMERGENCY promotes a culture of peace, solidarity

and respect for human rights.

All EMERGENCY facilities are designed, built and run by specialised international personnel,
who train local staff.

Surgery Medicine Rehabilitation

Surgery for victims of war and landmines Internal Medicine Physiotherapy
Emergency and Trauma Surgery Obstetrics and Gynaecology Prosthesis Production
General Surgery Neonatology Vocational training and cooperative
workshops for physically disabled
Plastic and Reconstructive Surgery Paediatrics
Orthopaedic Surgery Interventional Cardiology
Paediatric and Adult Cardiac Surgery First Aid
Primary Health Care

Since 1994, over three million patients have been treated

in EMERGENCY clinics, hospitals and rehabilitation centres
located in war-torn areas.
Afghanistan
In 1999, in Anabah, a village in the Panjshir Valley,
EMERGENCY transformed military barracks into a
surgical centre for war victims.

In order to respond to the needs of the local people,

the centre’s activities progressively expanded to include
emergency surgery and trauma care. In 2003, paediatric
and internal medicine units as well as a maternity ward
were built next to the main centre.

The centre provides maternity and neonatal assistance

to women and newborns in an area that has one of the
highest maternal and infant mortality rates in the world.
An itinerant prenatal health care programme was put in
place for women in the most inaccessible villages.

In the Spring of 2001, EMERGENCY opened a second

centre in Kabul that has become the trauma care centre
of reference for the entire country. In 2003, a six-bed
intensive care unit was created, and in 2005 a CAT Scan
(CT) unit was installed.

In September 2004, EMERGENCY opened a third

surgical centre in Lashkar-gah, the provincial capital
of Helmand in the south of the country. The hospital
is named after Tiziano Terzani, Italian journalist and
humanitarian. It is the only medical facility offering
free high quality health care assistance in an area
devastated by war.

In the areas most mined or where there is no health

care assistance available, EMERGENCY is present
through a network of First Aid Posts (FAP) which
are open 24/7 and are connected to the hospitals.
Ambulance service is provided for the most urgent
cases.
Since 2001, EMERGENCY has also provided health care
assistance to the inmates of the major prisons
in the country.

Uzbekistan China

Tajikistan
Turkmenistan

Anabah

Kabul
Afghanistan
Lashkar-gah

Iran Pakistan

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Anabah, the Panjshir Valley
Surgical and Medical Centre
Opened: December 1999
Activities:
Surgery for war and landmine victims
Emergency Surgery
Paediatrics
Facilities:
Emergency Department, Outpatient Department,
2 Operating Theatres, Intensive Care Unit, Surgical-
Medical Wards, Physiotherapy, Radiology, Laboratory
and Blood Bank, Pharmacy, Classrooms, Playroom,
Auxiliary Facilities, Maintenance Department.
Number of Beds: 70
Local staff: 196
As of December 2008:
Admissions: 16,969
Outpatient consultations: 85,829
Surgical operations: 11,891

Anabah, the Panjshir Valley

Maternity Centre
Opened: June 2003
Activities:
Obstetrics and Gynaecology
Neonatal Care
Facilities:
Emergency Department, Outpatient Department,
Operating Theatre, Intensive Care Unit, Patient
Wards, Nursery, Ultrasound, Delivery Room,
Technical and Auxiliary Facilities shared
with the Surgical-Medical Centre.
Number of Beds: 25
Local staff: 35
As of December 2008:
Admissions: 7,759
Outpatient consultations: 35,289
Surgical operations: 1,570
Births: 5,098
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Kabul
Surgical Centre
for War Victims
Opened: April 2001
Activities:
Surgery for war and landmine victims
Emergency and Trauma Surgery
Facilities:
Emergency Department, Outpatient Department,
2 Operating Theatres, Sterilization, Intensive Care
Unit, Subintensive Care Unit, Surgical Wards,
Physiotherapy, CT Scan, Radiology, Laboratory
and Blood Bank, Pharmacy, Classrooms, Playroom,
Auxiliary Facilities, Maintenance Department.
Number of Beds: 95
Local staff: 257
As of December 2008:
Admissions: 18,337
Outpatient consultations: 55,449
Surgical operations: 22,083

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, Classrooms,
Playroom, Auxiliary Facilities, Maintenance
Department.
Number of Beds: 70
Local staff: 185
As of December 2008:
Admissions: 7,553
Outpatient consultations: 44,724
Surgical operations: 8,643

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Afghanistan
First Aid Posts (FAP)
and Primary Health Clinics
Number: 29
Locations:
Abdara, Ahangaran, Anabah, Anjuman, Bagram,
Bazarak, Changaram, Charikar, Dara, Darband,
Dashty Rewat, Ghazni, 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: 210
As of December 2008:
Patients transferred: 18,983
Outpatient consultations: 1,646,742

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
Lashkar-gah Prison: 1,880 patients examined
and treated from February 2006 to December 2007
Prisons in Kabul (Governmental Jail, Investigation
Department, Pol-e-Charki): 171,244 patients
examined and treated as of December 2008
Local staff: 25

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Cambodia
The EMERGENCY Surgical Centre for War Victims
was established in Battambang in 1998, to provide
free high quality surgical assistance and rehabilitation
to victims of war and landmines. The Centre also
provides plastic and reconstructive surgery for patients
affected by polio, congenital malformations and burns.
In 2005, following a memorandum of understanding
signed with the Ministry of Health of Cambodia,
the EMERGENCY hospital began to admit all
trauma patients and other life-threatening surgical
emergencies. After the closure of the department
of traumatology at the provincial hospital,
the EMERGENCY Surgical and Trauma Centre
has become the referral facility for the entire province.
In 2006, a new physical rehabilitation department
for hospitalized patients was opened.

The international staff is engaged in training

programmes for local personnel by offering courses
for physiotherapists, nurses, and specialised surgeons
from the University of Phnom-Penh.

In order to cope with the high number of landmine

victims among the refugees returning from Thailand,
a field programme in the northern Samlot region
was established in 1999. EMERGENCY set up four First
Aid Posts (FAP) and a referral system to connect
the remote and heavily mined Samlot district
with the Surgical Centre in Battambang.
A fifth FAP was opened in January 2000 in Tasanh,
with a ward equipped for the treatment of malaria,
which is endemic in this part of the country. Each FAP
is open 24/7, and an ambulance provides transfer of
urgent cases to the EMERGENCY hospital.
In 2003, the management of four FAP was transferred to
the local authorities; however, EMERGENCY continues
to support all activities.
EMERGENCY still directly manages the O’Ttiak FAP
in Samlot province providing basic health care services.

Laos
Thailand

Battambang
Samlot Cambodia

Phnom Penh
Vietnam

Gulf of Thailand
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Battambang
Surgical 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, Classrooms, Playroom,
Auxiliary Facilities, Maintenance Department.
Number of Beds: 107
Local staff: 177
As of December 2008:
Admissions: 22,345
Outpatient consultations: 80,154
Surgical operations: 23,807

O’Tatiak
First Aid Post (FAP)
Opened: 1999
Local staff: 4
As of December 2008:
Patients referred: 4,295
Outpatient consultations: 229,452*

*This figure also includes consultations at the FAP

in O’Rotkroh, Chamlong Kouy, Tasanh e O’Chom before
the facilities were transferred to the local authorities.

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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.

The Sulaimaniya and Erbil Surgical Centres opened

in 1996 and 1998, respectively, offering free high-quality
surgical assistance to victims of landmines and war.
Both centres were later equipped with specialized units
for burn and spinal injury patients.

As of 2005, EMERGENCY treated over 330,000 people

at the Centres in Erbil and Sulaimaniya and the network
of First Aid Posts (FAP).

In May 2005, after 9 years of training the national staff,

the management of the Sulaimaniya and Erbil Surgical
Centres and their network of FAP were transferred
to the national health authorities. The Centres are now
fully integrated into the national health care system,
offering highly qualified assistance to all patients free
of charge.

In 1998, EMERGENCY opened the Rehabilitation and

Social Reintegration Centre in Sulaimaniya.
This Centre provides lower and upper limb prosthetic
services, physical rehabilitation and vocational
training to the physically disabled, and assists them
in starting professional cooperative workshops.

The Rehabilitation and Social Reintegration Centre

is still managed by EMERGENCY.

Turkey

Sulaimaniya
Syria Iran
Iraq
Baghdad
Jordan

Saudi Arabia Kuwait

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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
As of December 2008:
Admissions: 5,139
Sessions of Physiotherapy: 33,919
Upper Limb Prostheses: 642
Lower Limb Prostheses: 4,590
Orthoses: 680

Sulaimaniya
Social Reintegration Programme
Opened: 1998
Activities:
Vocational training and development of small
business cooperatives for the physically disabled
Facilities:
Classrooms, Vocational Training Workshops
(Professional Sewing, Leatherwork, Woodwork, Light
Carpentry, Shoemaking), Auxiliary Facilities.
Trainee class graduates: 596
Cooperatives set up: 202

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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, with the addition of 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.

In spring 2002, a Paediatric Outpatient Department

was opened in order to manage the growing number
of paediatric patients.

In 2003, the government of Sierra Leone provided

more land where EMERGENCY built two new wards
to expand its paediatric activities. Children admitted
to the EMERGENCY Centre mainly suffer from severe
malaria, acute anaemia and respiratory tract infections.

Since 2005, a programme was launched at the Paediatric

Centre to counter malnutrition. The programme also
provides hygiene and nutrition classes to mothers.

In 2006, EMERGENCY launched a new programme

for esophageal endoscopic dilatation procedures
to address accidental injuries related to ingestion
of caustic lye, a chemical used in homemade soap
production, a practice prevalent throughout Sierra Leone.

Currently, EMERGENCY’s surgical and paediatric centres

in Sierra Leone are the only medical facilities offering
free high standard health care services, and training of
surgeons and anesthesiologists in a country still greatly
suffering from the consequences of a long and harsh war.

Guinea

Sierra Leone
Freetown
Goderich

Atlantic Ocean
Liberia

EMERGENCY
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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, Classrooms,
Playroom, Auxiliary Facilities.
Number of Beds: 99
Local staff: 263
As of December 2008:
Admissions: 15,922
Outpatient consultations: 137,610
Surgical operations: 14,115

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
As of December 2008:
Admissions: 6,296
Outpatient consultations: 82,385

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Sri Lanka
Immediately following the 2004 Indian Ocean tsunami,
an assessment was conducted by EMERGENCY and a few
days later, surgical instruments and medical consumables
were supplied to the Kalutara General Hospital enabling it
to resume activities.

Soon thereafter, EMERGENCY was inundated with

donations from private individuals throughout Italy. As
EMERGENCY began responding that disaster relief was
not part of its mission, donors insisted that EMERGENCY
reconsider. They were aware of EMERGENCY’s track
record and trusted it to be the best organization to put
their donations to good use. Assessments for where and
how to best aid the numerous victims affected by this
catastrophric natural disaster were then conducted.

In collaboration with a local organization, the Tamil

Rehabilitaion Organisation, EMERGENCY established an
integrated programme to assist the coastal village of
Punochchimunai, a Muslim minority community, in the
eastern district of Batticaloa.

The first phase of this programme, called Back to the Sea,

was completed at the end of July 2005. EMERGENCY
distributed motor boats, canoes, and fishing nets to the
community’s fishermen so they could return to work.
School kits were also supplied to the local school children.

A housing project was also approved and construction

began on 91 brick homes for the homeless. Recurring
riots and hostilities between the government and civilians
caused significant delays, even halting construction
work for several months. The housing project was finally
completed in September 2008.

Bay of Bengal

Gulf of Mannar Punochchimunai

Colombo
Kalutara
Sri Lanka

EMERGENCY
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 Sudan
From the spring of 2004 to the summer of 2005,
EMERGENCY provided assistance to the Mellit
and Al Fashir hospitals in North Darfur. EMERGENCY
built a surgical ward at the Al Fashir Hospital which is
comprised of two operating theaters, a sterilisation room
and a 20-bed ward.
Approximately two million refugees live in Internally
Displaced Persons (IDP) camps under miserable
conditions on the outskirts of Khartoum with no access
to basic medical services. EMERGENCY opened a
paediatric centre in the Mayo IDP camp in 2005. It is the
only facility providing free of charge basic health care
to approximately 300,000 people. In addition to other
clinical activities, the centre also serves as a day hospital
with an outpatient ward and with an ambulance to
transfer the more serious cases to the surrounding
city hospitals.
Community Health Promoters (CHP) carry out follow-up
home visits as well as health and hygiene programmes.
These services have been up and running since the
spring of 2006. Local community members are selected
and trained as CHP by EMERGENCY’s international staff.
Maternity/pre-natal screenings are run at the centre, as
well as immunisation programmes for children ages five
and under.
In 2007, EMERGENCY opened the Salam Cardiac Surgery
Centre located in Soba, a village which runs along
the Blue Nile, about 20 kilometers from Khartoum.
The Salam Centre, meaning peace in Arabic, is the first
free of charge cardiac surgery hospital of excellence
on the African continent. It is a technologically
advanced centre, built with innovative techniques, and
is environmentally friendly. The Centre is clinically and
administratively managed by EMERGENCY.
It provides free, specialised cardiac treatment to
Sudanese patients and to those coming from neighboring
countries. Patients have come for treatment from
Chad, Central African Republic, Democratic Republic of
Congo, Eritrea, Ethiopia, Nigeria, Rwanda, Sierra Leone,
Tanzania, Uganda and Zambia. In 2008, patients from as
far as northern Iraq, referred by their Ministry of Health,
underwent surgery at the Centre.
Egypt
Libya

Khartoum Eritrea
Chad
Mayo

SUDAN
Ethiopia
Central African
Republic

Democratic Republic Uganda

of the Congo Kenya
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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
As of 31 December 2008:
Outpatient consultations: 56,147
Patients transferred: 1,039
Patients admitted for observation: 2,092

EMERGENCY also launched a paediatric regional project

in May 2007 to build specialised paediatric centres
in Sudan’s neighboring countries. In addition to providing
free of charge basic paediatric health care at these
centres, screenings and follow-up visits for cardiac
patients waiting to undergo surgery at the Salam Centre
will also be carried out.

The first of these centres will open in Bangui, capital of

Central African Republic in March 2009.

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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
As of 31 December 2008:
Admissions: 1,555
Outpatient consultations: 12,107
Cardiology examinations: 6,526
Surgical interventions: 1,018
Diagnostic and Interventional Cardiology
procedures: 376

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Italy
Serious violations of human rights affect the daily lives
of migrants coming to Italy. In April 2006, EMERGENCY
opened a medical facility which offers social and health
care services to any patient, regardless of immigration
status, seeking treatment in the following departments:
general medicine, paediatrics, dermatology, dentistry,
ophthalmology and otolaryngology, obstetrics
and gynecology, cardiology, psychiatry and psychology.

The volunteer medical staff at the clinic is comprised

of 25 dentists, 4 optometrist, 12 internists,
1 otolaryngologist, 1 dermatologist, 2 paediatricians,
3 nurses, 4 gynecologists, 4 cardiologists, 1 psychiatrist
and 1 psychologist.

The free of charge services are intended for immigrants,

but are available to anyone in need. The health care
treatment is made possible thanks to the collaboration
of a volunteer corps of medical personnel committed
to integrating national health care and to ensuring
the right of free high standard health care to all.

As of December 31, 2008, 4,474 patients from 62

different countries have been registered for treatment
at the clinic.

Palermo
Programme for Migrants
Outpatient Clinic
Opened: April 2006
Activities:
Cardiology Obstetrics and Gynaecology
Dermatology Otolaryngology
Infectious Diseases Paediatrics
Basic Health Care Psychiatry and Psychology
Dentistry Radiology
Ophtalmology
Facilities:
Dental, General Medicine, Eye Surgery, Outpatient,
OB-GYN, Outpatient Radiology, Infectious Disease,
Services.
Local staff: 6
As of December 2008:
Outpatient consultations: 21,272

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COMPLETED PROGRAMMES
EMERGENCY builds and runs permanent facilities
and trains national medical staff. The facilities are
transferred to the local health authorities once they
reach clinical and financial independence.
1994 - EMERGENCY renovated and reopened
the surgical department of Kigali Hospital
in Rwanda. Over a period of four months, surgical
assistance was provided to more than 600 victims
of war and landmines. A maternity ward was also
reopened, where over 2,500 patients received
medical and surgical assistance.
1996/2005 - EMERGENCY built the Surgical Centre
in Sulaimaniya, in northern Iraq, in order to provide
assistance to the victims of war and landmines.
The facility includes units for burn and spinal injury
patients. In 2005, the management of the Centre
and the 22 FAP connected to it, was transferred to
the local health authorities.
1998/2005 - EMERGENCY built the Surgical Centre
in Erbil, in northern Iraq, to provide assistance
to the victims of war and landmines. The facility
includes units for burn and spinal injury patients.
In 2005, the management of the Centre was
transferred to the management of the local health
authorities.
1999 - EMERGENCY supported the Jova Jovanovic
Zmaj orphanage in Belgrade, Serbia.
1999/2003 - EMERGENCY established 5 FAP in the
district of Samlot, in Cambodia, in order to provide
assistance to the victims of landmines. In 2003, the
management of the FAP of O’Rotkroh, Chamlong
Kouy, Tasanh and O’Chom was transferred to the
local health authorities.
2000 - EMERGENCY sent a surgical team
to Eritrea in response to a request from the Italian
Office for Cooperation and Development.
During the two month mission the EMERGENCY
team worked in the Mekane Hiwet Hospital in
Asmara, treating victims of the war between
Ethiopia and Eritrea.
2001 - EMERGENCY built a Prosthesis and
Rehabilitation Centre in Diana, in northern Iraq.
The management of the Centre was transferred to
the local health authorities.
2001 - EMERGENCY launched an aid programme
for war widows, distributing cattle to 400 families
in Panjshir Valley, Afghanistan.
2003/04 - EMERGENCY supplied drugs to Casa de
la mujer, a network of women’s centres providing
assistance to women suffering from cancer
and diabetes in Nicaragua.
2003 - EMERGENCY supplied the Al-Kindi Hospital
in Baghdad, Iraq, with generator fuel, medicine and
medical consumables. Tons of medical supplies
were also donated to the public hospital in Karbala,
south of Baghdad.
2003 - EMERGENCY set up a Prosthesis
and Rehabilitation Centre in Medea, Algeria.
An existing clinic within the public hospital
compound was renovated and equipped.
EMERGENCY trained Algerian staff to provide
specialised care for the physically disabled.
The management of the Centre, named Amal
hope in Arabic, was transferred to the local health
authorities in 2004.
2003 - EMERGENCY built the Prosthesis
and Rehabilitation Centre in Dohuk, northern Iraq.
The management of the Centre was handed over
to the local health authorities.
2003 - EMERGENCY refurbished two health
centres in Benguela Province, Angola, and equipped
them with medicine and medical consumables.
EMERGENCY ran the programme and trained
Angolan medical staff until February 2004.
2003/04 - EMERGENCY sent a surgical team
to work in the orthopaedic department of Jenin
Public Hospital, Palestine. EMERGENCY also built
a new orthopaedic ward, a new department of
physiotherapy, a hospital kitchen and cafeteria, and
also carried out medical staff training.
2003/07 - EMERGENCY launched a carpet-making
entrepreneur facility, to promote the economic
independence and empowerment of women,
widows and physically disabled persons living
in the Panjshir Valley, Afghanistan.
2004 - EMERGENCY supplied relief items, water,
and medical supplies to community leaders
and to the local public hospital in order to support
the people of Falluja, Iraq, during the siege
of the city.
2004/05 - EMERGENCY rebuilt and equipped
the Emergency Surgical Department
of the university hospital of Al Fashir in North Darfur,
Sudan. The structure includes a surgical block
and a 20-bed ward. The management
of the department was transferred to the Ministry
of Health in August 2005.
2005 - EMERGENCY supplied Kalutara General
Hospital in Sri Lanka, with surgical instruments
and medical supplies in order to advance clinical
activities.
2005/07 - EMERGENCY provided hygiene, disease
prevention, and first aid classes to the inmates of
the Rebibbia Nuovo Complesso Prison (Rome, Italy).
A free of charge tuberculosis screening programme
was also launched. Specialised medical assistance
was offered in various other prisons located in the
Lazio region in Italy.
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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 landmines.

In 1999 EMERGENCY was officially recognized by the Italian Ministry of Foreign Affairs as a Non Governmental
Organization (NGO).

EMERGENCY’s funding comes primarily from donations made by numerous private citizens.

From May 1994 to December 2007 (the most recently completed fiscal year) EMERGENCY’s total financial
resources were 136,621,736 Euros. The average administrative overhead was 5.89% of total budget.
Financial resources managed by EMERGENCY to date:

Year EURO
1994 435,977 2000 6,200,616

1995 317,828 2001 14,147,638

1996 1,582,883 2002 18,440,738

1997 2,754,334 2003 17,440,944

1998 2,157,363 2004 17,240,225

1999 3,979,566 2005 13,945,171

2006 14,716,032

2007 23,261,986

2008 17,500,000*

*Estimated balance

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Co-operative Bank
Account name: EMERGENCY UK
Account number: 65284573
Sort Code: 089299
credit/debit card online (secure server)
at www.emergencyuk.org (Sterling)
www.emergencyuk.org www.emergencyusa.org
“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

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