Ambulance for Mali

During a meeting between the former district manager of the Red Cross Groß-Enzersdorf, Siegfried Zapletal, and honorary consul Peter Klein from Mali, the two decided to send a decommissioned ambulance to Mali. His successor, Walter Mayr, completed the plan, organized the transport, and flew to Mali in 2008 to hand over the ambulance to a local hospital in Baako. The Marchfelder felt transported to a different world.
At the solemn handover, there was hustle and bustle, dancing and speeches, but behind the walls of the hospital, there was poverty and sheer horror. There was hardly any bedding on the mattresses, an operating room without any kind of technology, and a dental chair from the 1950s.
There is no care provided by nurses beyond medical necessity. The patient has to be washed and fed by family members. The washing of clothes and, if available, bedding is also the responsibility of the family.
I have seen hospitals in other African countries, such as Ghana and Tanzania, and I have noticed that here at least they ensure the necessary cleanliness.

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