LASHKAR-GAH, AFGHANISTAN. EMERGENCY: “HOSPITALS ARE NOT A TARGET”. STAFF: “WE ARE WORKING NON-STOP” “We are receiving wounded patients. We ask all parties to respect this facility and ensure it is not put in danger. HOSPITALS ARE NOT A TARGET!” An EMERGENCY leaflet addressed to all combatants has been translated into Dari, Pashto and English and […]

EMERGENCY’S SURGICAL CENTRE FOR WAR VICTIMS HAS RECEIVED DOZENS OF PATIENTS AND ADDED EXTRA BEDS. The Taliban offensive in Helmand province has led to fighting inside the city of Lashkar-Gah and an influx of patients to EMERGENCY’s Surgical Centre for War Victims in the city. “There has been very heavy fighting in Lashkar-Gah. We heard […]

The cost of vaccinating the world against COVID-19 could be at least five times cheaper if pharmaceutical companies weren’t profiteering from their monopolies on COVID-19 vaccines, campaigners from the People’s Vaccine Alliance said today. New analysis by the Alliance shows that the firms Pfizer/BioNTech and Moderna are charging governments as much as $41 billion above […]

The self-interest of G7 countries is the biggest obstacle to ending the Covid-19 pandemic, a group of campaigning organizations said today. Ahead of the G7 Leaders’ Summit, the People’s Vaccine Alliance warned that G7 promises to vaccinate the world by 2022 will be impossible to fulfill, if governments continue blocking proposals to waive patents and […]

EMERGENCY’S SURGICAL CENTRE FOR WAR VICTIMS HAS RECEIVED 26 INJURED PATIENTS AND ONE PERSON DEAD ON ARRIVAL At least 40 people have been killed and 52 more injured by a bomb explosion near a school in the Dasht-e-Barchi area in Kabul this afternoon, according to local sources. Marco Puntin, EMERGENCY’s Programme Coordinator in Afghanistan, said: […]