Our Story
EMERGENCY provides free, high-quality healthcare to victims of war, poverty and landmines, alongside building hospitals and training local medical staff. Founded in 1994, EMERGENCY has treated 9 million people in 17 different countries and currently operates in Afghanistan, Central African Republic, Iraq, Italy, Sierra Leone, and Sudan.
All EMERGENCY facilities are designed, built and run by specialized international personnel, who provide training for local staff.
EMERGENCY practices a medicine based on Human Rights: our Manifesto for a Human Rights based medicine declares that the "right to be cured" is a fundamental and inalienable right belonging to every member of the human family. Further, it calls for healthcare based on Equality, Quality and Social responsibility.
In 2010, EMERGENCY promoted the manifesto "The world we want", asking for a fairer world: http://www.emergency.it/the-world-we-want-html