Since 1998, in Cambodia Emergency has treated 390,008 people (as of December 31, 2011). Six million landmines, no doctors neither nurses in the country - all of them exterminated by the khmer rouge. These legacies of the bloody war that torn the country almost 40 years ago were amongst the reasons for EMERGENCY's intervention in Cambodia. 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. As time went on, hospital services were extended from war surgery to emergency surgery and trauma. On Febraury 29, 2012, EMERGENCY handed over the Centre to the Cambodian Ministry of Health. In Samlot, a heavily mined area on the border with Thailand, Emergency opened five First Aid Posts (FAP) 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. Between 2003 and 2009, those FAPs were handed over to local authorities. Please Visit Emergency Website http://www.emergency.it/en-index.html