What we do
Ukraine Emergency
Countries
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Fields of intervention
- Opening date: March 2022
- Duration: 7 mesi
- Closing date: October 2022
WHERE
Ukraine, Kyiv, Nizjchia Dubechna (Kyiv region), Poltava and Piryatin, Kramatorsk, Bakhmut, Chernihiv and Mikolaiv
CONTEXT
Since 24 February 2022 the Ukrainian population has been suffering the consequences of the conflict with Russia. The civilian population that has not fled, including many children, is the main victim and lives in a dramatic state of emergency. Vast areas of the Ukrainian territory are being mined and daily air raids are part of everyday life. A large number of children and civilians wounded and in life-threatening conditions, with severe gunshot and blast injuries caused by bombs and mines, must therefore be treated in the remaining hospitals near the front line. The local staff are working at their limit and lack everything in the damaged and partly destroyed hospitals.
In view of this heartbreaking situation, and because of the close ties with Ukraine of ASIA's founder Namkhai Norbu Rinpoche, ASIA decided to launch an emergency project to support the Ukrainians, issuing a first emergency appeal together with the International Dzogchen Community and later availing itself of the collaboration of ASIA Germany, whose president, the physician Wolfgang Schweiger, activated his contacts with the health personnel on the ground.
OBJECTIVES
General objective:
To support the life of the people affected by the conflict and to improve the health response for the needy population in Ukraine during the ongoing emergency.
Specific objective:
To provide basic necessities and equipment, machinery and medicines for the treatment of patients.
ACTIVITIES
- Shipping and distribution of packages with basic necessities (food, medicines, clothes) to some families in Kyiv, Nizjchia Dubechna, Poltava and Piryatin.
- Shipping and distribution of high-quality emergency monitors and defibrillators to the ambulances working on the front line in the Kramatorsk area (Donetsk Oblast), consumables for VAC pumps (which represent one of the most modern and promising technologies for the treatment of severe wounds) in the pediatric hospitals of Chernihiv and Mikolaivi to treat severely wounded children, Paul-type water filters to ensure drinking water to 10 health centers in Kramatorsk and Bakhmut.
RESULTS
- Provided basic necessities to cope with the first emergency.
- Provided machinery for the therapy of severe wounds.
- Improved the response capacity of the ambulances.
- Access to drinking water for the beneficiary health centers.
BENEFICIARIES
Direct: 16,320 people reached directly.
Indirect: the Ukrainian population.
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