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 […]

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, […]

35 PEOPLE RESCUED BY EMERGENCY’S SEARCH AND RESCUE SHIP LIFE SUPPORT DISEMBARKED IN LIVORNO ALBERT MAYORDOMO, PROJECT COORDINATOR ON BOARD: “IT WAS OUR FIRST RESCUE OF A BOAT THAT HAD LEFT FROM CYRENAICA, EASTERN LIBYA, IN A VAST AND POORLY PATROLLED AREA. LIBYA CAN IN NO WAY BE CONSIDERED A SAFE PLACE.” Livorno, 3 May […]

تشعر EMERGENCY بقلق بالغ إزاء القتال الدائر في الخرطوم وفي جميع أنحاء السودان. ندعو جميع أطراف النزاع إلى احترام مرافقنا الصحية والاعتراف بالمستشفيات كمناطق آمنة. تعد مست شفياتنا وعياداتنا أماكن محايدة حيث نعالج أي شخص محتاج دون تمييز. في مركز السلام لجراحة القلب في سوبا الحلة ، الخرطوم ، لا يمكن للعديد من المرضى البقاء […]

EMERGENCY is deeply concerned about the ongoing fighting in Khartoum and throughout Sudan, and calls on all parties to the conflict to respect our health facilities and recognise hospitals as safe zones. Our hospitals and clinics are neutral places where we treat anyone in need, without discrimination. At the Salam Centre for Cardiac Surgery in […]

7 INTERNATIONAL STAFF RETURN TO ITALY. 46 INTERNATIONAL STAFF REMAIN IN KHARTOUM, NYALA AND PORT SUDAN. FRANCO MASINI, MEDICAL COORDINATOR AT SALAM CENTRE FOR CARDIAC SURGERY IN KHARTOUM: “WE CONTINUE OUR ACTIVITIES EVEN IF THEY ARE REDUCED. WE CANNOT LEAVE OUR PATIENTS.” Seven EMERGENCY workers have chosen to return to Italy with the evacuation convoy […]