EMERGENCY UK is a UK based organization devoted to the promotion of a culture of solidarity, peace and respect for human rights.
EMERGENCY UK provides support to projects that offer free, high quality medical and surgical treatment for the victims of war and poverty.

Emergency

Cambodia

Cambodia suffered a little known war which, in just a few years, killed almost two million people. A post-war situation that was anything but post-war, where six million landmines still patiently await their victims.

The country has one of the worst health systems in Asia: less than 25% of the population has access to health care facilities and there is no free health system. During the war, Pol Pot’s regime murdered all medical personnel because educated people were an obstacle for the agrarian utopia of the Khmer Rouge revolution:  today, even primary healthcare 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. 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, EMERGENCY has treated over 372,132 people in Cambodia.