Many pharmacists are involved in volunteer work for the health of people around the world. The inserts can be acute disaster like hurricane "Idai" in Mozambique, or to the operation of a local health centre in Tanzania. In the run-up to Christmas, various auxiliary gather, therefore, organizations of pharmacists donations for such projects, with which the drug is procured, personnel trained and pharmacies are equipped.
Depending on the type and scope of the project, individual pharmacists from Germany for a certain period of time locally, or supporting local partner organizations with money and relief goods. Many pharmacist self-donation, some of the pharmacies collection to make cans and also ask your customers to Use. The following relief organizations are in need of assistance:
- Pharmacists without borders Germany e. V. from Munich, for example, support a new health centre in a poor district of Maluku in the Congolese capital of Kinshasa with the establishment of the pharmacy, the training of personnel and the financing of appropriate drugs.
- Pharmacist help e. V. come from Munich and collect donations for the medical and pharmaceutical care of detainees in the Central prison in Freetown (Sierra Leone).
- The Agency of Baden-Württemberg, pharmacists e. V. from Stuttgart, Germany has in the last ten years, together with the medical relief organization action medeor urgently needed medicines and dressing materials to Nepal, Haiti, Syria, Yemen, and Malawi supplied.
- The project "A Dose Zukunft" the chamber of pharmacists Westphalia-Lippe, Münster is involved in the Slums of Calcutta (India), to vaccinate there children living in abject poverty, measles, Mumps, rubella, and Polio. More than 180,000 children have been vaccinated in the past ten years.
Drug donations from patients are not in the Other, unfortunately, is not helpful, because they correspond to the needs on the ground in other Parts of the world.
For more information and details of the donation accounts is available on the website of the ABDA – Federal Union of German pharmacists e. V.
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