Iraq, marrow transplant providers to the inhabitants: the help and coaching program for docs and nurses within the Al-Hadbaa hospital in Mosul

MILANO – L’Ong AVSIdue to funds from the Iraqi authorities and the technical and medical assist of Italian professionals of the very best degree – coming from numerous establishments within the nationwide territory – has been implementing, since July 2023, a program of help and coaching for medical and nursing employees on the Al-Hadbaa hospital in Mosul geared toward making bone marrow transplants operational.

Already six sufferers operated on. The mission started in July 2023 and will likely be accomplished in June 2025. So far, six sufferers have been handled by the Italian staff in collaboration with the Iraqi staff: three youngsters “have undergone sibling transplants” and three adults have undergone autotransplants. All six sufferers have been launched from hospital and are recovering. The hospital and the medical staff are getting ready for a monitoring and comply with up part earlier than persevering with with new transplants.

Coaching in Rome, Palermo and Monza. For all these interventions, AVSI can depend on the technical assist of Italian professionals of excellence, coordinated by Dr. Marta Verna, mission coordinator Kids World Drugs of the Maria Letizia Verga Middle of Monza and by Professor Ignazio Majolino. Along with the transplants carried out, up to now eleven docs, nurses and laboratory technicians from the Al Hadbaa Hospital have been in a position to journey to Italy to obtain particular technical coaching on the San Camillo hospitals in Rome, Cervello in Palermo, IRCCS San Gerardo in Monza.

The identical mission additionally in Kurdistan. The technical staff of Italian specialists was additionally in a position to journey to Iraq in November to hold out a course on bone marrow transplantation and, subsequently, a steady presence on web site for six months to have the ability to perform the primary interventions. ??“?We’re honored to have been in a position to undertake this mission. The colleagues who accompany me on this journey, docs, nurses and technicians, at the moment are a household. Collectively we carried out the identical mission in Kurdistan in 2016, the place the middle is at present utterly autonomous and so they have carried out over 300 transplants?” – explains Marta Verna, haematologist paediatrician, contact particular person for the mission Kids World Drugs of the Maria Letizia Verga Middle in Monza

Excessive charges of leukemia. “Kurdistan has an incidence fee of leukemia and thalassemia that’s significantly excessive in comparison with the common of the remainder of the world. This mission is among the only a few potentialities for a lot of sufferers to obtain free therapy.” – feedback Lorenzo Ossoli, head of AVSI Iraq.

What’s the AVSI Basis. It’s a civil society organisation, accredited by the UN and the EU, based in 1972 and concerned in over 300 growth cooperation tasks in 40 international locations in Africa, Latin America and the Caribbean, Europe, the Center East and Asia. AVSI’s employees, made up of over 2000 folks, operates in the principle sectors of cooperation, reaching greater than 7 million direct beneficiaries. AVSI in Iraq. AVSI’s presence and dedication in Iraq date again to 1991, with emergency well being actions till 1996 and with instructional tasks from 2003 to 2006. Having arrived in Iraqi Kurdistan in 2014 to face one of the vital complicated humanitarian crises in the present day, AVSI is alongside Iraqi households displaced by the struggle and the host group.