For more than nine years, 싸토리우스 has partnered up with the medical aid organization action medeor e.V. for long-term development projects as well as disaster relief efforts. Read an update about how action medeor helps people affected by the war in Ukaine and the earthquakes that hit Türkiye and Syria.
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After the outbreak of the war in Ukraine in February 2022, 싸토리우스 made a considerable donation to action medeor for immediate diaster relief. Together with its partner organizations, action medeor started a program to help stabilize the medical supply-line for hospitals in the country.
Providing immediate help is essential in this situation. With action medeor as our long-standing partner, we know that the aid reaches those in need.
Joachim Kreuzburg, Chief Executive Officer at 싸토리우스
The first transport was unloaded on March 1, carrying urgently needed medical equipment. ©action medeor
With direct deliveries from action medeor’s headquarter in Tönisvorst, Germany, medical supplies and other urgently needed materials could immediately be used by hospitals and refugee shelters in western Ukraine and Moldova right after the war had started: from pulse oximeters used to measure oxygen concentration in blood, to portable ultrasound and x-ray devices.
Since the outbreak of the war, more than 900 tons of medical supplies have reached Ukraine. Even though, after two years of war, people try to live their lives as normally as possible, with constant fear of missiles and nights in the bunker, there are still an estimated 3.7 million internally displaced persons and 14.6 million people in need of help. Especially in the south of the country action medeor together with its partner organizations continues to support children, families and senior citizens in devasted areas with water, food, warm clothes, medical care and psychological help. This also includes a social pharmacy in Odessa as well as mobile pharmacies in more rural parts where the organization provides people with free medicines.
Additionally, action medeor and local partners also conduct activities aiming to give children a bit of light-heartedness even in times of the war, for example, with games and fun activities.
In Mykolaiv and Odessa in the south of Ukraine, the organisation supports with water, food, warm clothes, medical care and psychological help.
©action medeor
In February 2023, devastating earthquakes hit Türkiye and Syria with more than one million people affected. To support the international disaster relief efforts and the victims in both countries, 싸토리우스 donated 250,000 Euros to its long-term partner action medeor.
Learn more: Providing Assistance to Türkiye and Syria
Immediately after the earthquakes, the priority for action medeor and its local partners – the International Blue Crescent (IBC) in Türkiye and the Independent Doctors Association (IDA) in Syria – was on the deployment of emergency shelters and the distribution of food, hygiene kits, blankets, and beds.
Donations from companies like 싸토리우스 allowed the IDA to finance equipment for hospitals to treat the injured - for example a CT scanner for the IDA Hospital Wassim Maaz in Syria.
Action medeor, the IBC as well as the IDA were already active in the region before the earthquakes. This was beneficial when setting up the rapid response actions. In addition, working with local supply chains and investing in regional medical care capacities thus also has a more sustainable effect.
To date, around 64,000 people have been supported, 12,000 people have received medical care and 210,000 meals have been distributed. And action medeor and its local partners continue to support the affected people.
Distributing food, hygiene kits, blankets, beds and providing medical care for the people affected by the earthquake.
The German medical aid organization action medeor has worked for sustainable and improved healthcare for people especially in the poorest regions of the world for 60 years now. Based in Tönisvorst on the Lower Rhine, the charitable, non-governmental organization supplies medical aid to healthcare facilities in more than 100 countries across Africa, Latin America, and Asia. In emergencies, action medeor is able to dispatch vital medicines, medical supplies and equipment to the relevant countries within a few hours.
Learn more about 싸토리우스 partnership with action medeor
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