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Activity Report 1994/2014 Organization in Special Consultative Status with the Economic and Social Council Since 2015 EMERGENCY BELGIUM www.emergencybe.org EMERGENCY HONG KONG 2015 March www.emergencyhkg.org EMERGENCY JAPAN www.emergency-japan.org EMERGENCY SWITZERLAND FOUNDATION www.emergency.ch EMERGENCY UK www.emergencyuk.org Activity Report EMERGENCY USA www.emergencyusa.org 1994/2014 Organization in Special Consultative Status with the Economic and Social Council since 2015. EMERGENCY is an independent organization. EMERGENCY provides free, high quality medical and surgical treatment to the victims of war, landmines and poverty. MANAGING DIRECTOR Roberto Satolli DIRECTOR Gino Strada EDITOR EMERGENCY promotes a culture of peace, Simonetta Gola WITH THE ASSISTANCE OF solidarity and respect for human rights. Raffaela Baiocchi, Andrea Bellardinelli, Maurizio Cardi, Maria De Pasquale, Christian Elia, Simonetta Gola, Hawar Mustafa, Mimmo Risica, Emanuele Rossini, Cecilia Strada, Gino Strada, Manuela Valenti PHOTOGRAPHS In order to assert the right to healthcare for everyone, EMERGENCY: EMERGENCY archive, Marco Affanni, Gianluca - provides assistance totally free of charge; Cecere, Simone Cerio, Salvatore Colloridi, Michael Duff, Massimo Grimaldi, Baudouin - guarantees treatment to anyone in need of assistance, without any sort of discrimination; Mouanda, Gianluca Panella, Mattia Velati, - practices high quality medicine and employs standardized therapeutic and working protocols already tested in emergency situations; Christopher Williams - trains local staff thoroughly until complete operational independence is achieved. GRAPHIC DESIGN Angela Fittipaldi EMERGENCY designs, builds and manages through its international staff: - hospitals for victims of war and surgical emergencies; - rehabilitation and social reintegration centres; - first aid posts for emergency treatment; EDITORIAL TEAM via Gerolamo Gerolamo Vida, 11 - basic health centres for primary healthcare; 20127 Milano - paediatric and maternity centres; T +39 02 881 881 F +39 02 863 163 36 - outpatient and mobile clinics for migrants and destitute people; [email protected] www.emergency.it - centres of excellence. Between 1994 and 2014, in the hospitals, clinics and rehabilitation centres run by EMERGENCY, over 6 million people received high quality medical care free of charge. 2 — Report 2014 Report 2014 — 3 A YEAR TOGETHER by Cecilia Strada, President Sierra Leone, October. Momoh, aged five, Teresa contacts the social services to sort arrives at our Ebola treatment centre in something out. Goderich with his mother. She doesn't make it. She's already dead when the Central African Republic, May. Ismae ambulance reaches the gates of the is seven and has got second and third centre. Momoh is very ill: vomiting, degree burns on his feet and legs. His diarrhoea and a high temperature. Gina father tells us their village was attacked gives him fluids intravenously. Three weeks at night and all the houses were set fire are needed to get him out of danger. to. They walked fifteen days through the forest to get to the “Complexe pédiatrique” Afghanistan, July. Shamsullah, aged where the EMERGENCY doctors and nurses twelve, was going to the market with are. His father thanks Ombretta again and his father when a mine exploded and again. overturned their cart. He lost both legs. Abdul Ahad, aged ten, is on the same Iraq, April. Naby and Said are learning ward. He was shot, playing on a roof. Ivan, how to use a sewing machine. They're the ward nurse, gives them some felt tip on a vocational training course at the colouring pens and a smile. This too is Rehabilitation and Social Reintegration healthcare. Centre in Sulaimaniya, where disabled and maimed people can learn a work Sudan, June. Omer arrives at the Paediatric skill compatible with handicap. Faris and Centre with his parents. He is aged five Hawar, the directors of the centre, look on but with the weight of a two-year-old and proudly. This too, for us, is healthcare; like suffers from Tetralogy of Fallot. When he the healthcare we provide to refugees – arrives at the centre he is unconscious new civilian victims of yet another war – at and in a state of respiratory failure. He has the Arbat camp. to be resuscitated and admitted. Sofia, a cardiologist, is at the centre at the time on This year too, we have treated many, far a screening mission, selecting patients for too many, people at EMERGENCY centres operation at the Salam Centre for Cardiac throughout the world and in Italy. At every Surgery. Omer will be one of these. single patient's side there has been a doctor, a nurse and a mediator ready to Italy, May. One of the two EMERGENCY give help, a smile, a pen. And at the side of minivans is working around Bari station, each one of them there's been you, making providing primary healthcare and advice all this possible. Thank you. to the many needy people in the area. Amongst the patients waiting for us is Goran, a Kurdish boy just arrived in Italy. He acts as if he already knows us and, after a few questions, smiles and says “It really is you!”. Goran had been a patient of ours in Sulaimaniya, in Iraqi Kurdistan; we operated on him there when he was eighteen and fitted him with two leg prostheses. Now he's here, a war refugee with nowhere to sleep. Maria Afghanistan, Kabul - Surgical Centre for war victims 4 — Report 2014 Report 2014 — 5 1994 HUMANITARIAN PROGRAMMES Missions of war surgery and obstetrics in Kigali, Ruanda 1995 CAMPAIGN AGAINST 1999 THE LANDMINES Opening Anabah Surgical and Medical Centre, Afghanistan 1996/2005 Surgical Centre of Sulaimaniya, Iraq 1998 1999 Opening the Rehabilitation Centre in Sulaimaniya, Iraq Jovanovic Zmaj Jova Support to the orphanage in Belgrade, Serbia 1998/2005 2000 Surgical Center of Erbil, Nord Iraq Mission of war surgery in Asmara in Eritrea 1998/2012 Surgical Centre of Battambang and 5 First Aid Posts, Cambodia 2001 Opening the Surgical Centre in Kabul, Afghanistan 2002 2001 Opening the Paediatric Centre in Goderich, CAMPAIGN “A SHRED OF PEACE” Sierra Leone 2001/2002 Centre Prosthesis and Rehabilitation to Diana, Iraq 2003 2001 CAMPAIGN “CEASE FIRE” Aid program for war widows in Panjshir, Afghanistan 2003 2001 Support at Al-Kindi hospital in Baghdad and Kerbala, Iraq Opening the Surgical Centre of Goderich, Sierra Leone 2002 CAMPAIGN “ITALY OUT OF THE WAR” 2003 2003/2012 Online newspaper PeaceReporter Opening the Maternity Centre of Anabah, Afghanistan 2004 2003/2004 Centre Prosthesis and Rehabilitation in Medea, Algeria Opening the Surgical Centre of Lashkar-gah, Afghanistan 2003/2004 Centre Prosthesis and Rehabilitation in Dohuk, Nord Iraq 2004 Aid to the people of Falluja, Iraq 2003/2004 Renovation of health Centres in Benguela, Angola Mission of surgery to the public hospital in Jenin, Palestina 2004/2005 Delivery of drugs to the Casa de la mujer, Nicaragua Reconstruction of the department of emergency surgery in Al Fashir hospital in North Darfur, Sudan 2003/2007 Support for widows and destitute women of the Panjshir Valley, 2005 Afghanistan Sierra Leone, Goderich - Ebola Treatment Centre Support the hospital in Kalutara, Sri-Lanka 6 — Report 2014 Report 2014 — 7 2005 2014 2006 Opening the Paediatric Centre of Mayo, Sudan 2005/2007 MARCH Assistance to inmates Rebibbia New Complex, Rome Opening Clinic in Palermo, Italy Start of preventive medicine activities in Start of emergency surgery courses, Afghanistan 2005/2008 Port Sudan, Sudan Reconstruction of houses in the village of Punochchimunai, Sri-Lanka 2007 Opening of FAP in Urmuz (Helmand area), Afghanistan 2008 MANIFESTO FOR A HUMAN RIGHTS Opening the Salam Centre for Cardiac BASED MEDICINE APRIL Surgery in Khartoum, Sudan Start of project for the prevention of sexually transmitted diseases in sex workers, Italy 2009 2010 Opening of FAP in Tagab (Kabul area), Afghanistan Opening the Paediatric Centre of Bangui, Central African Republic Opening Clinic in Marghera, Italy JUNE 2011 Start of blood bank project, Central African 2010/2011 Republic Pediatric Centre in Nyala, Darfur, Sudan Start of mobile clinics, Italy 2010 MANIFESTO “I STAY WITH EMERGENCY” JULY Mission of war surgery in Misrata, Libya Opening of FAP in Arbat camp, Iraq, for Syrian refugees Opening of Health Centre in Khanaqin IDP camp, CAMPAIGN “IT CAN ONLY BE ABOLISHED” Iraq 2012 Opening of FAP in Andar (Kabul area), Afghanistan Opening new First Aid Posts, Afghanistan SEPTEMBER Opening the Paediatric Centre of Port Sudan, 2012 Sudan Information desk for social and health orientation in Sassari, Italy Opening of Ebola Treatment Centre in Lakka, Opening of second health centre in Arbat camp, Sierra Leone Iraq, for Iraqi IDP 2011 MANIFESTO “THE WORLD WE WANT” Opening of FAP in Sheikhabad (Kabul area) 2013 NOVEMBER Politruck, Italy DECEMBER Information desk for social and health orientation in Sicily, Italy; Opening a Clinic in Polistena, Italy; Launching of 2 new mobile clinics in Italiy; Opening of FAP in Waterloo, Sierra Leone Opening of Ebola Treatment Centre in Goderich, Opening 4 new FAPs in Afghanistan; Sierra Leone Mission of war and emergency surgery in Bangui, Central African Republic. 8 — Report 2014 Report 2014 — 9 “The aim of our Centre is to provide maximum care to the patient. This is what guides us in our work every day. THE EBOLA EMERGENCY IN SIERRA LEONE Doing this it is difficult, though, when you have to look after your own safety, working with instruments that restrict your movements. Despite this, we're looking at ways of increasing the time we can dedicate to patients and, compared to other Centres, we're very satisfied with what we're achieving. In our work – and elsewhere too – the risks are many. You think about the risks, of course, but you concentrate on your work and your patients, and all the rest comes after that. Because, with quality and professionalism, Ebola can and must be cured.” Gina, coordinator of the Ebola Treatment Centre in Goderich. «In August, when the Ministry for Health in Sierra Leone asked us to open an isolation centre in Lakka for suspected Ebola cases, in just three weeks our logistics team put up a system of tents with a total of 22 beds.
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