Prague, Dec 2 (CTK) – The Czech Republic wants to send 11.5 million crowns to Lebanon, Iraq and Ukraine for the purchase of hospital equipment, the training of staff and for educational nd psychological programmes, according to a proposal the cabinet will discuss on Monday.
The sum will be provided from the MEDEVAC programme supervised by the Interior Ministry.
Five million crowns will go to Iraq to upgrade the equipment of the hospital in Makhmur and the Sharia refugee camp in Kurdistan.
“It will make it possible to treat war wounds and stabilise patients before their transfer to hospital, where serious wounds will be treated,” the government’s draft document says.
Another Iraqi clinic to acquire new equipment is that in the Niniveh area.
In the Fallujah region, the money will help buy personal care items for people in refugee camps.
Lebanon will gain 2.5 million crowns for equipping a gynecological and obstetric clinic that also treats women in refugee camps.
The remaining four million crowns will go to Ukraine. For example, the hospital in Volnovakha will acquire an air ventilator, an incubator, and operating theatre and lamps.
The MEDEVAC programme was launched in 1993. Within it, medical teams are sent abroad and patients transported from war- and disaster-afflicted regions to the Czech Republic.
In the past, the programme helped patients from Afghanistan, Bosnia-Herzegovina, Burma, Cambodia, Chechnya, Iraq, Kosovo, Lebanon, Pakistan, Syria and Ukraine.
($1=25.465 crowns)
