Humanitarian / medical supplies sought

Help for "Agent Orange" - victims in Vietnam

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More than one third of the population lives below the poverty line, in the country even half. Especially in rural areas and in mountainous regions is very bad health.
Due to the widespread use of chemical weapons such as napalm and the defoliant "Agent Orange" are partly to today irreparable ecological damage.




Yet more than 30 years after the end of the war in Vietnam, many people suffer from the effects of the chemical defoliant Agent Orange, thousands of families bring severely disabled children to the world.

The impact on the population are still palpable, it suffered around 700 000 children under late as abnormalities or cancer. Moreover, there is always a danger that farmers and children playing retarded by landmines and UXO injured or killed. The fatal injuries are in immediate treatments, but especially in rural areas are not enough hospitals and health stations exist, and are thus available for many is difficult to reach. First Aid can therefore often inadequately or not at all to be done. Many people die just because of the long and arduous routes.

There are other common diseases often result from the lack of care options to death, such as gastro-intestinal infections, fever, transmitted by the Anopheles mosquito, acute respiratory diseases and skin rashes, and Parasietosen and hepatitis.

The local hospitals are often only about a lack of basic equipment needed medical equipment and medicines. Also missing ambulances to transport patients. The patients themselves often have their limited food or clothing to sell in order for the necessary hospital costs can be.



The medical equipment in hospitals and clinics is often outdated and no longer to use the medicine are partially expired or simply do not exist. The people who e.g. X-ray to a person, or even had premature births and an incubator may need without this necessary equipment currently insufficient help.


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