A new project in aid of refugees populations in Chisinau has kicked off thanks to the partnership between CUAMM and UNICEF to promote healthcare assistance and foster emergency preparedness.
The focus of the trip in Padua of the American Ambassador to the Holy See, Joe Donnelly is to know the work of Doctors with Africa CUAMM in Africa, in Italy and for the Ukraine crisis.
An ambulance, three healthcare workers, a small cooler and a big register: with an authentic commitment, they can do a lot. That’s what happening in Tanzania, in Shynianga region, where the vaccination campaign is thriving.
Easter is coming. A holiday to commemorate resurrection, life over death. Our thoughts cannot fail to go with those living in dark times, facing suffering and death every day. As Pope Francis keeps reminding us, every conflict, every war is a sacrilege, an atrocity we have to stop fuel before it destroys human beings. Everywhere in the world. From Ethiopia to Northern Mozambique, from South Sudan to Central African Republic up to that one closer to us, in Ukraine.
In Chernivsti a long queue of people has formed. There wasn't one a month ago, when I came here for the first time. They are waiting, silently, without complaining, patiently, to receive a bag with some food and personal hygiene products. There is a sort of embarrassment in their eyes about being guests in a new city.
Life must go on. Many other people, internally displaced, help as they can. Someone is in charge of receiving, sorting and sending humanitarian aid; there are people singing and playing in the streets; others are collecting money to support the country...
The first CUAMM doctor arrives in Chinisau. His task is to start the outpatient clinic for the first response health support for refugees at the reception center.
What is their greatest need? To get medicines, because supply chains have been interrupted, factories have been destroyed, production blocked, and transportation routes broken. This is our first undertaking as CUAMM.
Now that life has been put on hold, ordinary activities have stopped and days are marked by curfew times, everyone has made themselves available to support their country and the people who need help most.
Once it gets the go-ahead from the Moldovan Ministry of Health, CUAMM's action will support a reception center managed by the local diocese, with a mobile clinic to provide first response health care and lighten the burden on hospitals.