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Northern Iraq, an area known as Iraqi Kurdistan, whose borders are not drawn on any map or atlas: they are drawn, instead, by an invisible and menacing broad of landmines.

 

Iraqi Kurds, living in this area, live with ten million landmines (most of them made in Italy) planted by Saddam Hussein during the war between Iraq and Iran. An invisible army that continues to kill.

Here, in 1995, Emergency refurbished and reopened a hospital in the village of Choman, on the border with Iran.

In Sulaimaniya and in Erbil, two cities under the control of two different factions at war with each other, in 1996 and in 1998 Emergency opened two Surgical Centres in order to provide high quality free of charge medical assistance to the victims of war and landmines.
Both these facilities were later fitted with specialized Burn and Spinal Units.

In 1998, in Sulaimaniya, Emergency opened a Rehabilitation and Social Reintegration Centre for amputees, which provides lower and upper limb prostheses, physical rehabilitation, vocational training and assistance in setting up professional cooperative workshops in their villages.

Emergency created a network of 22 First Aid Posts throughout the country to guarantee fast treatment of patients and their transfer to its hospital, when necessary.

In April 2005, having nurtured the program to become fully autonomous, Emergency completed the handover to local authorities of the all Surgical Centres and First Aid Posts, which are now integrated in Iraq’s national health system.

Since 1995 in Iraq Emergency has treated over 389.571 people.

 
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