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

Documentaries

THE CHILDREN'S WARD, a documentary about the stories of two children admitted at EMERGENCY's hospitals in Afghanistan and Sudan, has been broadcast on BBC Four
on Monday 9 March. You can watch the video on BBC website until April 6th, 2009.

The Children's Ward, a documentary by Fabrizio Lazzaretti and Paolo Santolini, narrates the stories of two children admitted at EMERGENCY's hospitals in Afghanistan and Sudan. Murtaza, a 7 years old Afghan boy, lost his left hand stepping on a landmine, and is recovering at EMERGENCY'S Surgical Centre in Kabul. Across the ocean, 14 years old Yagoub lives with his family at Mayo IDP Camp, near Sudanese capital Khartoum. Yagoub is affected by a serious heart disease but his family can't afford the cost of the operation in the public hospital. Then, one day, an Italian Ngo starts building a Centre for Cardiac Surgery in Khartoum...

EMERGENCY's films, shot in Iraq and in Afghanistan, give an insight into the organization, its work, the victims of war whom we have treated in our hospitals and the people we have met along the way.


"Jung in the land of mujaheddin", by Fabrizio Lazzaretti and Alberto Vendemmiati. Jung, the Farsi word for War, documents the building of EMERGENCY's first hospital in Afghanistan during the conflict between the Taliban and the Mujaheddins of the Northern Alliance. In the seven months they spent in the country, the directors recorded the legacy of one of the longest and most complex conflicts of the last century, one whose end seem, even now, out of sight (115 minutes).

"Afghanistan: collateral damages?", by Fabrizio Lazzaretti and Alberto Vendemmiati. Afghanistan: collateral damages? documents EMERGENCY's activities in Afghanistan between September and December 2001: from the urgency of daily life in Panjshir to the EMERGENCY team's journey toward Kabul to provide assistance to the victims of the never-ending Afghan conflict (60 minutes).

Both documentaries are available in English. For more information, please contact info@emergencyuk.org.