REPORT 1994—2015 EMERGENCY ONG ONLUS Is an Independent International Organisation
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REPORT 1994—2015 EMERGENCY ONG ONLUS is an independent international organisation. It provides free, high-quality medical and MANAGING DIRECTOR Roberto Satolli surgical treatment for the victims of war, DIRECTOR Gino Strada landmines and poverty. EDITOR Simonetta Gola WITH THE ASSISTANCE OF Francesca Bocchini, Giacomo Menaldo, It promotes a culture of peace, solidarity Emanuele Nannini, Luca Radaelli, Emanuele Rossini, Cecilia Strada and respect for human rights. PHOTOGRAPHS EMERGENCY archive, Marco Affanni, Victor Blue, Simone Cerio, Roberto Ciavarella, Michael Duff, Massimo Grimaldi, Francesco Pistilli, Alessandro Rota, Gianluca Tullio GRAPHIC DESIGN Angela Fittipaldi PRINTED BY Special issue, supplement to the Quarterly - Litografica Cuggiono, Registration with the Court of Milan al no. 701 of 31.12.1994 DISTRIBUTION 280,000 copies, of which 206.344 sent to registered supporters EDITORIAL TEAM via Gerolamo Vida, 11 20127 Milan - Italy T +39 02 881 881 F +39 02 863 163 36 [email protected] www.emergency.it Between 1994 and 2015, over 7 million people have been treated free of charge at EMERGENCY’s hospitals, health centres, outpatient clinics and rehabilitation centres. 2 — Report 2015 Report 2015 — 3 . OUR PRINCIPLES WHAT WE DO We believe that the right to health is a fundamental human right, thus we call for healthcare based on: We build and run hospitals open to everyone in need of treatment. We deploy surgical teams in emergency crisis, we train local staff to foster their independence. EQUALITY SOCIAL RESPONSIBILITY Every human being has the right to receive medical Governments must consider the health and well-being SURGERY MEDICINE REHABILITATION treatment regardless of their economical and social of their citizens as priorities, and must allocate the condition, gender, ethnic group, language, religion and necessary human and financial resources to achieving . Cardiac surgery for . Cardiology . Physiotherapy opinions. The best treatment made possible by progress this purpose. The Services provided by national health children and adults . General medicine . Production of prostheses and medical science must be provided impartially and systems and humanitarian projects in the health field . War surgery . Internal medicine and orthoses without discrimination to all patients. must be free of charge and accessible by everyone. Emergency surgery . Neonatal medicine . Vocational training and and traumatology . Ophthalmology start-up of local QUALITY . General surgery . Obstetrics and cooperatives High quality health systems must be based on the needs . Orthopaedic surgery gynaecology of everyone and must be adapted to progress in medical . A&E . Paediatrics science. They cannot be guided, organised or determined From «Manifesto for Human Rights Based Medicine» . Dentistry by power groups or by the companies involved in the San Servolo, Venice, 2008 health industry. ITALY Clinic for migrants and people in need, Palermo IRAQ WHERE Clinic for migrants and people in need, Marghera (VE) Rehabilitation and Social Reintegration Centre, Sulaimaniya Clinic for migrants and people in need, Polistena (RC) Professional and Training courses WE ARE Clinic for migrants and people in need, Castel Volturno (CE) 334 cooperatives for disabled persons Clinic for migrants and people in need, Ponticelli (NA) 5 Primary Health Centres in refugee and IDP camps Mobile unit for social-healthcare orientation and counselling, Bologna 5 Mobile clinics Medical assistance to migrants in Sicily Information and prevention on Sexually Transmitted Diseases in Caserta Social-healthcare orientation centre, Sassari AFGHANISTAN LIBYA Medical and Surgical Centre, Anabah Surgical Centre for war victims, Gernada Maternity Centre, Anabah Surgical Centre for war victims, Kabul Surgical Centre for war victims, Lashkar-gah SIERRA LEONE 43 First Aid Posts and Health Centres Surgical Centre, Goderich Paediatric Centre, Goderich First Aid Post, Lokomasama SUDAN Paediatric Centre, IDP Camp in Mayo, Khartoum CENTRAL AFRICAN REPUBLIC Salam Centre for cardiac surgery, Soba, Khartoum Paediatric Centre, Bangui Paediatric Centre, Port Sudan, Red Sea State Surgical and paediatric intervention at the Complexe Pédiatrique, Bangui Organisation of and support to the activities of the National Blood Bank (CNTS), Bangui 4 — Report 2015 Report 2015 — 5 WAR A NEW OPERATING THEATRE IN THE DOCTORS, NURSES AND MEDIATORS TO SURGICAL CENTRE FOR WAR VICTIMS MIGRANTS HELP MIGRANTS AND REFUGEES IN SICILY. IN KABUL, AFGHANISTAN. TWO CENTRES TO CURB THE EBOLA EPIDEMIC AND EBOLA TREAT THE ILL IN THE ONLY DEDICATED INTENSIVE CARE UNIT IN THE WHOLE OF WESTERN AFRICA. 2015 AT A GLANCE GINO STRADA RECEIVES THE HUMAN RIGHT LIVELIHOOD AWARD AT THE SWEDISH PARLIAMENT. RIGHTS NEW HEALTH CENTRES FOR REFUGEES A NEW HOSPITAL FOR WAR A NEW MATERNITY CENTRE IDPS AND AND IDPS OF THE WAR IN SYRIA AND WAR VICTIMS IN GERNADA, LIBYA. WOMEN BEING BUILT IN AFGHANISTAN. REFUGEES IN IRAQ. they die in Afghanistan) or “our dead” to be mourned and that one, and then reach a period of peace. No. Peace is a avenged (if it happens in Paris, New York, Brussels). And positive, reciprocal, daily relationship. It’s a social system yet the faces of the victims are always the same, wherever based on rights rather than inequality. Peace isn’t passive LET'S BREAK they are: dead and mutilated, widows and orphans. And - it’s practical; dismantling the factory of war means that’s not the only result of war. War poisons and destroys replacing it with something else. That “something else” is the environment, putting a cost on the future of our the only real tool for preventing the next war. So, in our children. War deletes memories. War produces hunger, toolbox for abolishing war we need to add an economy THE CIRCLE OF WAR refugees and displaced persons. War brings poverty to of peace, the practice of human rights, the elimination those who suffer it, and even those who make it, taking of inequalities; and we need to take out war profits, stop away resources from school, health and work. Above all, arms trafficking and prevent economic and political war and the war system produce the next war. They don’t support for criminal groups and terrorist movements. foster safety, but it’s opposite.. And this is no coincidence. The criminals have to be seen and treated for what they are, and we need to use tools of intelligence and policing. We have to be able to speak with those who don’t share As Giovanni Falcone, a man of law who fought mafia, our opinion. All those for whom “war is a necessary said, there’s the “follow the money” logic, and he wisely Cecilia Strada, President evil; what other way is there to stop terrorism?”. avoided any suggestion of bombing Sicily to beat the EMERGENCY’s experience, the experience of those mafia. We need to bind the economic relations between who’ve been observing war from the first aid post and countries to the respect for human rights. We have to the operating theatre for the past 20 years, is the living safeguard the planet, because it’s the only one we’ve got. proof that war just doesn’t work. We see the number of We have to give everyone the chance for dignity and wounded increasing year by year. We treat them in their happiness, in conditions of peace. That would be a safe own homes in Afghanistan, Iraq, Libya or Central African world. A world where civilians can go to a concert, to «War can’t be humanised, it can only be abolished; and “Armed” with paper napkins and felt-tip pens, we sat Republic, and we treat them here in our own homes - the the market or to work without being blown up, without that will be EMERGENCY’s commitment in the coming down with the EMERGENCY volunteers and began war refugees and migrants. We know that, since 2001, the having to worry about a kamikaze, a drone, a rocket, a years», said Gino Strada to all his friends at the Right to ask ourselves some questions, starting with «Do we “war against terrorism” has only produced more deaths, trigger-happy army, a landmine, the bombing of a village Livelihood Award and to all EMERGENCY’s volunteers really believe it can be abolished?» One question leads more violence, more hatred and more terrorism. Today, in or a hospital. and travel companions around the world. A hope, and to another: what does “abolish” mean? And what is the face of fresh mourning in Europe and those calling for an invitation to get the ball rolling. OK, so it can only be “war”? And terrorism? Is there any major difference “more war to beat terrorism”, we want to point out that it’s The logic of war, the circle of war created by a bomb abolished, but how? between the two, from the civilians’ point of view? And 15 years of war that have led us here. Is it so difficult these or a car bomb and then another bomb and a suicide what is “peace”? What is safety? War has shown its Returning from Stockholm, we opened our books again. days to talk about abolishing war? More difficult than it bombing - is the actual problem, it can’t be the solution. innate incapacity to build a safer world, but what’s the We went back to Albert Einstein, Bertrand Russell, Linus was 20 years ago? Yes. As we write this, the pictures of The past 20 years have proved this. We need to break the alternative? And how do we achieve it? Pauling and many others who, long before us and in a Brussels are in our heads. More mourning, more fear, circle, change direction, and we need to do it now. Is it much better way, put man on his guard: war has to be So, between one napkin and the next, one question and more upset and horror, and a backdrop of sharks.