ROMA – The wars in Ukraine, Gaza and Sudan are among the main emergencies that the teams are currently dealing with. Doctors Without Borders (MSF) are committed to the front line to provide medical and surgical care and ensure safe delivery to women who often travel miles to reach a hospital. To support this life-saving medical action, on Saturday 19 and Sunday 20 October MSF will be in over 100 Italian squares with “Cookies Without Borders”the first solidarity initiative in the square of the medical-humanitarian organization.
A box of cookies in the shape of an off-road vehicle. With a minimum donation of 15 euros, MSF volunteers will distribute a special box of biscuits – produced by Gentlemen – which depicts the off-road vehicle used in emergency situations to transfer patients, transport medical supplies and medicines or reach those in need of care even in the most remote places. In some squares, you can play a board game that shows how MSF logistics works, how a field hospital is built, like the two active ones in Gaza, the management of patients and the different medical areas.
“The support of many private donors is both a guarantee of our independence and the ability to intervene in less than 72 hours in any emergency. With the donation for a box of cookies we will be able to purchase 7 emergency dressing kits” says Laura Perrotta, fundraising director of MSF.
For those who are hungry for humanity. Inflatable hospitals, mobile clinics in remote villages, but also telemedicine, scientific innovation, environmental health: for over 50 years, MSF’s medical action has been constantly evolving, although guided by the same principles of impartiality, neutrality and independence.
In Ukraine. Since the beginning of the year, MSF ambulances in Ukraine have travelled 12,000 kilometres to transfer more than 8,000 patients from frontline areas to better equipped hospitals, a 30% increase compared to the previous six months.
A Gaza. Where it has been present for 36 years, MSF offers medical and surgical care, maternal and child care, vaccinations and mental health services, in two hospitals and nine health centers, in addition to distributing 600,000 liters of water per day in more than 40 water points.
“I want to sleep for an hour without being terrified”. “This is what our patients in Gaza tell us,” says Federica Iezzi, a pediatric surgeon for MSF who recently returned from Gaza, “when they arrive at the hospital, where we are forced to operate on the wounded on the floor of the entrances or in the corridors. There is not enough medical equipment, there is only paracetamol for the pain.”
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– 2024-09-23 22:00:01
