Bad Homburg v. d. Höhe, December 12, 2024 – Else Kröner-Fresenius-Stiftung (EKFS) set its commitment to funding emergency medical relief in Ukraine and its neighboring countries forth once again in 2024. To this end the foundation has made new funding resources amounting to over one million euros available for medical purposes.
Since the beginning of the war in Ukraine in the spring of 2022, EKFS has provided roughly 5.5 million euros to support medical care. These resources flow into projects toward outfitting hospitals, parts of which have been destroyed, deploying mobile clinics, providing medication, or toward looking after and attending to traumatized patients.
“Our goal is to help quickly and with the least amount of bureaucratic ‘red tape’ possible,” says Hubert Eisele, in charge of Humanitarian Funding at EKFS. To ensure this EKFS envisages awarding the financial resources in a simplified procedure upon application. The funding support is available to non-profit organizations which possess existing contacts and structures in place in Ukraine or within refugee assistance programs in Germany.
Support for supplying the civilian population in Lviv with pharmaceuticals
One example of the projects being funded is the work together with Pharmacists without Borders Germany. Since 2022 this humanitarian organization has been regularly supplying the Saint Nicholas Hospital of Emergency and Intensive Care with urgently needed medication. The drugs and pharmaceuticals are properly transported directly to Lviv by Mission Lifeline.
A multidisciplinary center with 440 beds and a neonatal intensive care unit, children who have sustained life-threatening injuries and wounds are treated at Saint Nicholas Hospital in Lviv. The children are frequently hospitalized with blood poisoning caused by multidrug-resistant bacteria, which can only be treated using expensive, last-resort “reserve” antibiotics.
The project’s objective is to ensure a continuous provision of healthcare, to safeguard the medical supply and medical care for children affected by the war, and to save lives.
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Else Kröner-Fresenius-Stiftung is a non-profit foundation dedicated to the funding and advancement of medical research and the support of humanitarian projects. To date the foundation has funded around 2,600 projects. With an annual funding volume currently amounting to over 70 million euros it is the largest foundation in Germany that actively funds and supports medicine. You can find more information at: www.ekfs.de/en
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