A little known war which, in just a few years, killed almost two million people.
A postwar situation that was anything but postwar, with six million landmines patiently waiting for their victims.
In a country that has no doctors and no nurses, all murdered because educated people were an obstacle for the agrarian utopia of the Khmer Rouge revolution, even primary health care is an everyday emergency.
In 1998, in Battambang, one of the most heavily mined areas of the country, Emergency built a Surgical Centre dedicated to the victims of war and landmines. Afterwards hospital services were extended from war surgery to emergency surgery and trauma.
In Samlot, a heavily mined area on the border with Thailand, Emergency opened five First Aid Posts and two mobile clinics in order to treat landmines victims as well as diseases such as malaria, tuberculosis and typhoid, which would have otherwise been left untreated.
Since 1998, in Cambodia Emergency has treated over 372.132 people.
