Emergency’s policy is to see to fruition long-term projects in the various countries it serves.
While Emergency initially provides all surgical and medical assistance needed in the facilities it builds, staffs and manages, its goal is to ultimately see them become self-sustainable. Once they can be run autonomously, both professionally and economically, they are transferred to the local authorities.
In particular circumstances Emergency will provide support for other pre-existing hospitals, renovating and equipping certain wards or supplying specialized personnel, drugs and medical equipment.
1994 - EMERGENCY renovated and reopened the surgical department of Kigali Hospital in Rwanda. Over a period of four months, surgical assistance was provided for more than 600 war casualties and land-mine victims. A maternity ward was also reopened, where more than 2,500 patients received medical and surgical assistance.
1999 - EMERGENCY supported the Jova Jovanovic Zmaj orphanage in Belgrade, Serbia.
2000 - EMERGENCY sent a surgical team to Eritrea in response to a request from the Italian Office for Cooperation and Development. During the two-month mission the EMERGENCY team worked in the Mekane Hiwet Hospital in Asmara, treating victims of the war between Ethiopia and Eritrea.
2001 - EMERGENCY built a prosthesis and rehabilitation centre in Diana, in northern Iraq, and transferred it to the local health authorities.
2002- EMERGENCY provided pharmaceutical supplies to "Casa de la mujer" a network of women’s centres in Managua, Nicaragua. The dispensaries assist female cancer and diabetes patients.
2003 - EMERGENCY supplied Al-Kindi Hospital in Baghdad, Iraq, with generator fuel, medicines, and consumable materials. In the same period, tons of medical supplies were donated to the hospital in Karbala, 70 miles south of Baghdad.
2003 - EMERGENCY set up a prosthesis and rehabilitation centre in Medea, Algeria. An existing clinic within the public hospital compound was renovated and equipped, and EMERGENCY trained Algerian staff to deliver specialized care. The centre, named Amal ("Hope" in Arabic), was transferred to local health authorities in 2004.
2003 - EMERGENCY built a prosthesis and rehabilitation centre in Dohuk, northern Iraq, and handed it over to local health authorities.2003 - EMERGENCY intervened in Angola at the request of a local religious organization in Benguela Province. Two health centres were refurbished and equipped with medicines and consumable supplies. EMERGENCY managed the clinic and trained Angolan medical staff for one year.
2003/04 - A surgical team worked in the orthopedic department of Jenin Public Hospital, Palestine. EMERGENCY built a new orthopedic ward, a new department of physiotherapy, and a hospital kitchen and canteen. EMERGENCY was also responsible for professional training of the Palestinian medical staff.
2004 - EMERGENCY supported the people of Falluja, Iraq, during the siege of the city in November 2004. Relief items, water and pharmaceutical supplies were given to community leaders and to the local public hospital.
2004/2005 - EMERGENCY rebuilt and equipped the emergency surgical department of the university hospital of Al Fashir in North Darfur, Sudan. The structure includes an operating room and 20-bed ward. The department was transferred to the Ministry of Health in August 2005.
2005 – After the tsunami, EMERGENCY supplied the hospital in Kalutara with surgical instruments and medical consumables. EMERGENCY financed the building of 91 houses in Punochchimunai (completed in 2008), a village on the east cost, and distributed new boats and nets to enable the locals to work and support themselves.
2005 - EMERGENCY offered courses in hygiene, disease prevention and first aid for prison inmates. EMERGENCY provided specialist doctors’ assistance in some prisons of the Italian region Lazio. The program was completed in 2007.
