Project HOPE’s Humanitarian Assistance programme delivers millions of pounds worth of donated medical supplies each year to communities in chronic or acute crisis.
The programme aims to deliver essential medical supplies quickly and safely to communities which due to chronic or acute emergencies are suffering. In recent years many of our resources have been used in former Soviet Republics in Central Asian where huge numbers of the population are living below the poverty line. Last year in a worldwide effort by Project HOPE, medicines and healthcare equipment worth nearly £10 million were delivered to Tajikistan, donated by GlaxoSmithKline, Eli Lilly, Merck, Wyeth and other long term supporters.
The donation, including antibiotics, IVs, syringes and gloves, will allow doctors to treat patients safely in facilities all over Tajikistan, for example the Dushanbe Children’s Hospital and the Kulyab Oblast Hospital.
Project HOPE UK staff member Eleanor Higgins travelled with the shipment to witness the delivery of medicines moved from Project HOPE UK’s warehouse in Essex to Dushanbe and then into the hands of doctors and pharmacists in Tajikistan’s hospitals and local healthcare facilities.
She writes: “Arriving in Dushanbe the impact of the size of the shipment was clear, but also clear to see was the great need in the capital and in regions further afield that we delivered to. In the Children’s hospital in the centre of Dushanbe, we met Moonis Halifaer, 9 months old and suffering from dehydration caused by severe diarrhoea. In Dushanbe, where children still die from diarrhoea-related illnesses, medicines like oral re-hydration solutions, antibiotics and enzymes save lives.”
“Very exciting was the delivery of a generator, not usually first considered when seeking medical supplies, delivered to a remote hospital in Pyanj. This hospital is without any power for 7 months of the year and for the other 5 month beset with power failures, often during surgery. The impact this generator will have to the hospital and the community it serves is immeasurable.”
Healthcare and pharmaceutical companies make this life saving programme possible, every donation of supplies or money to ship supplies, no matter how small is essential. We work strictly to the World Health Organisation guidelines on drug donations – could your company work with us on this?
