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

Sudan

Sudan is the largest country in Africa that has been ravaged by a 20-year civil war between the Arab Muslim government in the North and the mostly black-Christian-Animist South fighting for independence. An entire region, Darfur, has been destroyed by a war that has degenerated into one of the worst conflicts in Africa.

Life expectancy in Sudan is 57 years, under five mortality is approximately 10.7%, 50% of the population has no access to life-saving drugs and the doctor-patient ratio is 16:100,000.

In Spring 2004, EMERGENCY began working in North Darfur, supporting the hospitals of Mellit and Al Fashir. In 2005 EMERGENCY opened a Paediatric Centre that provides free-of-charge health care for children at the Mayo IDP (Internally Displaced Persons) camp, on the outskirts of the Sudanese capital, Khartoum.

EMERGENCY's Salam Centre for Cardiac Surgery, 20  kilometres away from Khartoum, provides completely free-of-charge, high quality medical and surgical assistance for heart patients from Sudan and its neighbouring countries.

Since the beginning of its activities in Sudan EMERGENCY has treated over 113,279 patients.