EMERGENCY has opened a new primary healthcare clinic in the Gaza Strip, in al-Qarara (Khan Younis), within the so-called ‘humanitarian zone’ defined by Israeli forces at the beginning of the conflict. The clinic, operating in a catchment area of 10,000 people, provides first aid, basic medical and surgical care for both adults and children, outpatient […]

On the morning of Thursday 16 January, an explosion broke glass and tiles in the living quarters of EMERGENCY’s Salam Centre for Cardiac Surgery in Khartoum. The explosion took place less than two kilometres from the hospital, and shrapnel was also found in the hospital parking lot. “This is the second time in the last […]

At 8:55am on 17 December, the 34 people rescued by EMERGENCY’s search and rescue ship Life Support disembarked in the Italian port of Ancona. They had been rescued from a rubber boat on 12 December in the central Mediterranean, within the international waters of the Libyan SAR zone. “We arrived in Ancona after five days […]

On the morning of 12 December, EMERGENCY’s search and rescue ship Life Support rescued a boat in distress in the Mediterranean sea, within the international waters of the Libyan SAR zone. On board were 34 people, including one unaccompanied child. Before the rescue, at about 1:20 a.m. on Thursday 12 December, two boats – one […]

75 people rescued by EMERGENCY’s search and rescue vessel, Life Support, disembarked in the port of Vibo Valentia early this morning at 1:15am. The people rescued had been brought to safety in two separate operations carried out on Thursday 28 November, in international waters in the Maltese SAR zone. “We have completed the disembarkation of […]

On Sunday 17 November, at 4:10 p.m., 49 people rescued by EMERGENCY’s search and rescue ship Life Support disembarked in Ancona, Italy. They were rescued on 12 November from a boat in distress that was identified directly from the bridge of Life Support, in the international waters of the Maltese search and rescue (SAR) zone. […]

For 10 months, EMERGENCY has been operating in Ukraine in the Kramatorsk area, Donetsk Oblast, one of the areas most affected by the war. As part of the project titled “Restoration of Health Services in the Donetsk Region for the War-Affected Population”, funded by the Italian Agency for Development Cooperation (AICS), EMERGENCY has created a […]

EMERGENCY has begun health activities in the Gaza Strip in a field clinic set up in the so-called ‘humanitarian area’ of al-Mawasi, in support of a Palestinian organisation called Culture & Free Thought Association (CFTA). “While we are waiting to build our own clinic, we decided to work in support of a local, independent non-governmental […]

Today, Monday 4 November, 72 people rescued by EMERGENCY’s ship Life Support disembarked at the port of Livorno, Italy. The survivors were rescued on 31 October in two separate operations, both in the international waters of the Maltese SAR zone, in the central Mediterranean Sea. Both boats were reported by the NGO Alarm Phone. After […]