Ukraine Aid: New project coordinator takes over the implementation of our emergency aid
Our employee Peter Dischler will coordinate our emergency aid in Ukraine with immediate effect. He brings a lot of experience as an emergency paramedic and his previous Cap Anamur missions in Somaliland and Sierra Leone.
Cap Anamur has been providing emergency aid in Ukraine for over 1.5 years
We have been providing emergency aid in Ukraine for 1.5 years now. During this time, the project was supervised by two experienced Cap Anamur project coordinators. First, our Chairman of the Board, Volker Rath, traveled to the country immediately after the outbreak of war to organize our emergency aid. Subsequently, Jürgen Maul was on site for more than a year and established a nationwide network of partner hospitals, which we have been serving ever since.
Inspection of the health facilities along the front line
Since the beginning of August, Peter Dischler has been briefed on the project by Volker Rath. Together, they visited health facilities along the frontline last week that are regularly supplied with supplies and equipment by Cap Anamur. They were in Dnipro, Kramatorsk, Sloviansk and Izium.
During this visit, Peter received an overview of all partner facilities and got to know the contact persons on site. The intense and personal exchange with them is essential for our work. Because that way we immediately receive the needs of the medical facilities, which we then cover as quickly as possible.
Near Dnipro, the two ambulances that Cap Anamur has provided for the initial treatment of the gravely injured are also in operation. Our project staff participated in an operational exercise of the medical first aid team.
Cap Anamur supports the health facilities to keep their operations running
In Izium, the two visited an invalid home that still houses 37 people who have not yet been evacuated from their homes. Since the outbreak of the war, Izium has been located in the immediate vicinity of the front and had been occupied by the Russians for a time. Most of the people have left the heavily damaged city. The two Cap Anamur employees also visited the partially destroyed hospital. We regularly supply this medical facility with consumables and equipment, as operations must continue to provide care for the severely injured from the front lines.
Peter summarizes his first impressions from Ukraine like this:
“I have felt a kind of uplifting mood despite the terrible situation on the ground and I am glad that we as Cap Anamur are able to do our part to care for the people”