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and surgical treatment to the victims of war, land mines and poverty. So far, E E!"E#$% has treated over 5,4 million patients in 16 countries. In order to assert the right to healthcare or e!er"one, EMERGENCY# 1. provides assistance totally free of charge& '. guarantees treatment to anyone in need of assistance, without any sort of discrimination& (. practices high quality medicine and employs standardized therapeutic and wor)ing protocols already tested in emergency situations& 4. trains local staff thoroughly until complete operational independence is achieved. EMERGENCY designs, $uilds and manages through its international sta # 1. hospitals for victims of war and surgical emergencies& '. reha*ilitation and social reintegration centres& (. first aid posts for emergency treatment& 4. *asic health centres for primary healthcare& +. paediatric and maternity centres& ,. a centre for cardiac surgery. E E!"E#$% has active programmes in -fghanistan, $entral -frican !epu*lic, Iraq, Italy, Sierra .eone and Sudan. E E!"E#$% usually *uilds or renovates medical structures, which are su*sequently handed over to the local health authorities. Even in Italy, there are areas where serious daily violations of *asic human rights create a need that is unanswered. /his need is often manifested in the negation of the right to health care. 0ith this in mind, E E!"E#$% has *egan wor)ing with immigrants and prisoners. %ince &ecem$er 1''', Emergenc" has treated o!er (,))5,*** people +as o ,une (*, -*1(. in / ghanistan. In over 41 years, war in -fghanistan has caused one and a half million dead, hundreds of thousands of wounded and disa*led, in addition to more than four million displaced people. /he most recent war, which *egan in 2cto*er '111, continues to in3ure, )ill and destroy. -nd on the ground there is still the legacy of previous wars4 landmines and une5ploded devices continue to maim children and adults, mostly civilians. Since 1999, E E!"E#$% has *een active in -fghanistan and has *uilt and managed a %urgical and Medical Centre and a Maternit" Centre in the 0an1shir 2alle", a %urgical Centre in 3a$ul, a %urgical Centre in 4ash5ar6gah, a networ) of 7irst /id 0osts and 8ealth Centres, a programme of medical assistance to the inmates o the largest prisons in the country. %ince -**4, Emergenc" has treated o!er (*-,*** people in %udan +as o ,une (*, -*1(. In '114 E E!"E#$% intervened in Sudan to support the hospitals in ellit and -l 6ashir, in #orthern 7arfur, *y renovating and equipping the emergency surgical *loc) and ward. In '11+ E E!"E#$% opened a 0aediatric Centre in Ma"o Internally 7isplaced 8eople 9I78: camp, a few )ilometres from the capital ;hartoum. /he $entre provides free of charge primary healthcare to children up to 14 years of age.
In the same year, again near*y the capital, E E!"E#$% started to *uild a $entre for $ardiac Surgery in order to provide highly specialized free medical and surgical assistance to patients from Sudan and its neigh*ouring countries. 9he Salam Centre or Cardiac %urger" started its activities in '11<. It is lin)ed to a networ) of 8aediatric $entres where E E!"E#$%=s international cardiologists carry out the screening and follow>up of children and adult heart patients that are transferred to ;hartoum for surgery. In ?uly '111 E E!"E#$% opened a 8aediatric $entre in #yala. /he $entre=s activities are currrently suspended '111, following the )idnapping of a staff mem*er who was released in 7ecem*er '111 after 4 months of imprisonment.