Dr Gina Portella interviewed by The Independent
Our medical personnel is living through a war-like situation
Our medical personnel is living through a war-like situation
EMERGENCY is doing its bit to combat the COVID-19 pandemic.
EMERGENCY’s team of approximately 20 people will consist of doctors, nurses, physiotherapists, and logisticians, who will run the intensive and sub-intensive care wards.
As always, thank you for whatever you can do.
To contain the outbreak, we must intercept as many people as possible, especially those who live on the margins of society. “
Medicine can’t stop. Neither can solidarity with one another in these difficult times.
Borders too often act as barriers. Countries should be refuges instead of obstacles to basic human rights. Migrants are not the danger. Intolerance is. https://www.facebook.com/emergencyuk.ngo/videos/2274195982681197/?__xts__[0]=68.ARA56GAwRqgQl-1of4fegGqyIEppNZ1A5AiHIaFNX3Gz0R65JSLd5xHWOCCAdlNkeEo8h8F9r2se3Ca5QJzdnoE6j2wPIRk2vi2GtSHkgtiLQxNaYrwOUWHMnT_DD84dgxpqh2a7fXnd3u2l0_vldUettuxLMAtChrJLQB03WyCzj4CwxQCaVcrKEP1_vD1JS3bgtml7kwwtbskp3jE1jcGx0gmLI4SVTPTot1-poxblh4DamW3ESBpV-Z-qoykNnkb-qAoq55Zuv264R76VfrNHYE9FcHOoOIS9iwO7Ojyk2IxLuDLWGA9GvqJ68PWIcHmKokxRSzTmIdjpQgQ-XN3Ob1jBLEjWmx580A&__tn__=-R This is the desperation that Europe continues to ignore. Names, stories, identities, hopes, dreams,…
This is the desperation that Europe continues to ignore.
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