the Ukr’Aide association finds a relay in Dijon

While there are already more than three million refugees across Europe, aid continues to be organised: in Côte-d’Or, it is health professionals who collect medical donations, medicines and healthcare equipment .

Aid to Ukraine takes all forms. At the Drevon polyclinic, it is the health professionals who are mobilizing.

Two surgeons from Besançon created the Ukr’Aide association to channel donations of medical equipment to Ukraine. Practitioners from the Parc Drevon polyclinic in Dijon heard the call for donations and did not hesitate, like Cécile Guinchard, endocrinologist: “I had a few small things in the office but not a lot, I had contacted my fellow city pharmacists and my fellow liberal nurses, each one actually brought things stored at the pharmacy, and I went by and brought them back.

This collection is organized by the territorial professional health community (CPTS). The practitioners of Dijon and its surroundings are called upon to mobilize, as attested by Anne-Laure Bonis, general practitioner and President of the CPTS Center 21: “All health professionals can bring bandages, infusion equipment, orthopedic equipment, anything that is not useful to them. We will sort and pack for departure via the Ukr’Aides association for the border.”

Valérie Fakhoury, director of the Polyclinique du Parc Drevon, worked for 15 years with the doctors of Besançon who created the Ukr’aide association. This is why she lent a hand to her colleagues: “It was natural for me to create a local platform in Dijon, so it was at the Clinique du Parc that we organized this collection.”