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Afghanistan: Two Years on from August 2021
Friday, August 11, 2023
Amid the changing political landscape, the freeze on international banking, an escalating humanitarian crisis and increased restrictions on women, EMERGENCY remains in Afghanistan and continues to provide free, high-quality care across the country. Since August 2021, EMERGENCY has admitted more than 41,000 people to its four hospitals: two Surgical Centres in Kabul and Lashkar-Gah, and a […]
10 INJURED AND 2 DEAD RECEIVED IN EMERGENCY CLINICS IN THE DISTRICTS OF JALREZ AND GHURBAND, NEAR KABUL
Wednesday, July 26, 2023
After the floods of the last few days in the east of Afghanistan, causing dozens of injuries, deaths and missing people, EMERGENCY’s First Aid Posts in the Ghurband and Jalrez districts have received 10 injured patient, and two already dead on arrival. The posts are located in the provinces of Parwan and Maidan Wardak, among […]
171 PEOPLE RESCUED BY EMERGENCY’S SEARCH AND RESCUE SHIP LIFE SUPPORT LANDED IN TARANTO.
Monday, July 24, 2023
171 PEOPLE RESCUED BY EMERGENCY’S SEARCH AND RESCUE SHIP LIFE SUPPORT LANDED IN TARANTO. AMONG THE RESCUED ARE 20 WOMEN AND 51 CHILDREN, 46 OF WHOM ARE UNACCOMPANIED. MANY REPORT VIOLENCE IN TUNISIA AND LIBYA. Taranto, 24.07.23 – The disembarkation of the 171 people rescued on 20 July by EMERGENCY’s search and rescue ship Life […]
184 PEOPLE RESCUED BY LIFE SUPPORT IN FOUR DIFFERENT RESCUE OPERATIONS
Friday, July 21, 2023
The four rescue operations conducted by EMERGENCY’s search and rescue ship Life Support throughout the night of Thursday 20 July were completed at 10:30 am today.184 people were rescued. All the rescues took place in international waters, within the Maltese search and rescue zone. The first boat came from Libya and the other three from […]
Non-Governmental Organisations urge European Commission to put under scrutiny Italian law restricting search and rescue activities at sea.
Thursday, July 13, 2023
Brussels, 13 July 2023 – Five leading Non-Governmental Organisations (NGOs) have submitted a complaint to the European Commission (EC) about Italian Law 15/2023 and the practice by Italian authorities of assigning ports distant from the area where the rescue took place, to disembark people from humanitarian search and rescue vessels. The NGOs submitting the complaint […]
EMERGENCY’s New Report: Covid-19 Response in Africa and the COVAX Mechanism
Monday, June 12, 2023
On 12 June 2023, EMERGENCY released a new report in conjunction with the research centres CERGAS and DONDENA, from Bocconi University. The report, Covid-19 Response in Africa and the COVAX Mechanism; Voices from the Field: Sierra Leone, Sudan, Uganda, identifies flaws in local, national and global response systems, contextualised within each of the three countries’ […]
EMERGENCY’s Search And Rescue Ship Life Support Has Disembarked The 29 People Rescued In International Waters.
Monday, June 5, 2023
“THE ENGINE BROKE DOWN. I WAS PANICKING BUT I WOULD NEVER GO BACK BECAUSE IN LIBYA YOU RISK YOUR LIFE EVERY DAY.” “THE FATHER OF MY SON IS STILL IN LIBYA. WE WANTED TO RESCUE OUR LITTLE ONE FROM THAT HELL, BUT WE DIDN’T HAVE THE MONEY TO PAY FOR THREE. HE SACRIFICED HIMSELF. NOW […]
3 WOMEN AND 1 CHILD AMONG THE 29 PEOPLE RESCUED TODAY BY EMERGENCY’S LIFE SUPPORT VESSEL.
Friday, June 2, 2023
3 WOMEN AND 1 CHILD AMONG THE 29 PEOPLE RESCUED TODAY BY EMERGENCY’S LIFE SUPPORT VESSEL. ALBERT MAYORDOMO, HEAD OF MISSION: “ILLEGAL RETURNS OF MIGRANTS TO LIBYA TAKE PLACE IN THESE WATERS. MANY TRAVEL FOR YEARS BEFORE THEY CAN TRY TO REACH A SAFE PLACE.” DOCTOR ON BOARD: “CHILD WAS AT RISK OF DEHYDRATION AND […]
EMERGENCY’S LIFE SUPPORT: No Sign Of Boat In Distress With 500 On Board
Thursday, May 25, 2023
There is still no sign of the boat in distress in the Maltese SAR area that EMERGENCY’s Life Support vessel was going to rescue. The boat in distress, which had been in contact with the NGO Alarm Phone for two days, had 500 people on board, including at least 45 women, some of them pregnant, […]
LIFE SUPPORT EN ROUTE TO 500 PEOPLE IN DISTRESS IN MEDITERRANEAN
Wednesday, May 24, 2023
500 PEOPLE ON BOARD A BOAT THAT IS ALREADY TAKING ON WATER ALBERT MAYORDOMO, MISSION COORDINATOR: “ONE OF THE BABIES ON BOARD WAS BORN LAST NIGHT. WE KNOW THAT MANY ON BOARD ARE PREGNANT WOMEN AND MINORS. A VERY SERIOUS SITUATION, YET MALTA AND ITALY ARE NOT RESPONDING TO REQUESTS FOR RESCUE COORDINATION.” Five hundred […]