Audience for the presentation of the Non-Profit Hospital Center for Charity Without Borders in the Democratic Republic of Congo
On Friday 8 July the Excellency Regency granted an audience to the Onlus Charity Without Borders Association. On the occasion, one of the largest projects that the Association has carried out so far was officially presented: the construction of a hospital center in Kalala-Diboko, in the Democratic Republic of Congo. The Center is made up of 4 pavilions that house an operating room, a delivery room, clinics and 30 beds and was commissioned by Charity Without Borders to provide medical and hospital care to over 45,000 people living in this area, practically isolated from two large rivers, and which have neither a hospital nor a medical clinic to turn to in case of need. This is why pregnant, elderly or young women die from easily treatable causes. Carry out a demanding project like this in a region poor in any infrastructure, where it is not possible to find the necessary material for construction and everything has to be transported to the site with high transport costs, where every time the works are interrupted, both for lack of funding for both the rainy season, you have to face the costs of reopening the construction site, all this requires an organizational effort and greater than normal. To this it must be added that before Covid and now also the war in Ukraine have caused a general increase of 30% in the prices for transport and for material, which is largely imported. On the other hand, we are fully aware of these increases here too. Precisely when one chooses to serve the poorest of the poor, one also encounters the greatest difficulties but also needs, which for these people, without medical care, means suffering and death, which could be avoided. At present, 3 out of 4 halls are in an advanced state of construction. Tiles, paints, solar panels and all medical equipment for the operating room and delivery room and furnishings necessary for the operation of the hospital center were transported to the site. All this was possible thanks to the generous support of many San Marino citizens, bodies and institutions. There is still a lot of work to be done and funding is still needed, but the Association is strongly committed to completing the project and is even more determined after the recognition it received from the World Health Organization. In fact, the Representatives of the WHO in the Democratic Republic of Congo, after having made an inspection, gave the Center their recognition as a hospital structure and particularly appreciated it as the best of the new structures visited in the Region. This appreciation, in addition to being valid for the structure that the Association is building, means concrete help, in fact it means that, once operational, for three years the WHO will recognize the Center as a percentage of the management costs (for eg maintenance costs, for personnel, for the procurement of drugs, etc.).
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