EMERGENCY provides free, high-quality healthcare to victims of war, poverty and landmines, alongside building hospitals and training local medical staff.
Founded in 1994, the charity has treated over 12 million people in 20 different countries and currently operates in West Asia, Eritrea, the Middle East, Italy, Moldova, Sierra Leone and East Africa, including Uganda.
The charity is founded on the belief that healthcare is a human right and therefore everyone should have access to high-quality treatment. This is why the medical care they provide is always free-of-charge and of equivalent standard to what would be expected in a high-income country.
EMERGENCY does not discriminate, and guarantees treatment to anyone that needs it.
Alongside healthcare provision, the charity builds hospitals and trains local people to be staff (in fact 97% of staff in the field are local people), working with healthcare systems and ministries to ensure the care and training provided is what the country most needs. EMERGENCY always works with the aim to build capacity and progressively transfer autonomy to local communities and authorities.
In 2022, the Randal Charitable Foundation provided significant funding for the provision of food for 4,000 staff and patients, including special diets to patients in need, at EMERGENCY’s Anabah Surgical & Paediatric, and Maternity Centres, in the Panjshir Valley, West Asia.
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