Drugs appeal.
Do you have any prescription drugs lying around that you no longer need? Well the Zapatista hospital at Oventic needs them urgently. Below is a brief history of the place and details of how to donate.
Do you have any prescription drugs lying around that you no longer need? Well the Zapatista hospital at Oventic needs them urgently. Below is a brief history of the place and details of how to donate.
The Oventic Hospital administrator.
Medication stored here for thousands of people in one of Chiapas poorest areas.
La Guadalupana was one of the first clinics organised by the EZLN even before the uprising. It began to function on Feb 28th 1992 with about 8 health workers. That first clinic which aided the insurgents and militiamen wounded in 1994 uprising has now become the Zapatista hospital. At this hospital and two other centres more than two hundred health workers are presently being trained. They are not paid but their food and travel expenses are provided by their communities.
The hospital is supported by skilled professionals some of whom come from abroad. They are performing operations and helping to train the workers.
At present due to lack of equipment and medicines it is only possible to perform very basic operations. Despite it’s lack of resources the hospital is open 24 hours a day 365 days a year. The hospital has saved many lives and continues to promote health issues and vaccination campaigns.
THE HOSPITAL NEEDS:
Ibuprofen, aspirin, paracetomol, penicillin, amoxicilon, folic acid, diazepam, dyhydrocodiene, morphine just to name a few of the most common drugs.
Intravenous solutions. Sterile gloves. Bandages and healing dressings. Dentistry equipment. Gynaecology medication and materials. An ambulance.
We have a full list of drugs and equipment that is urgently needed if anyone can help translate it from Spanish then please contact
guidoreports@riseup.net
To donate prescription drugs (Must be in their original packaging) directly to the Hospital please get in touch with:
JUNAX
Calle Ejercito Nacional no.17
Barrio del Cerrillo
C.P. 29220
SCLC, Chiapas,
Mexico
Tel. 0052 967 67-4-5133
junax@seva.org
www.seva.org/junax
The hospital is supported by skilled professionals some of whom come from abroad. They are performing operations and helping to train the workers.
At present due to lack of equipment and medicines it is only possible to perform very basic operations. Despite it’s lack of resources the hospital is open 24 hours a day 365 days a year. The hospital has saved many lives and continues to promote health issues and vaccination campaigns.
THE HOSPITAL NEEDS:
Ibuprofen, aspirin, paracetomol, penicillin, amoxicilon, folic acid, diazepam, dyhydrocodiene, morphine just to name a few of the most common drugs.
Intravenous solutions. Sterile gloves. Bandages and healing dressings. Dentistry equipment. Gynaecology medication and materials. An ambulance.
We have a full list of drugs and equipment that is urgently needed if anyone can help translate it from Spanish then please contact
guidoreports@riseup.net To donate prescription drugs (Must be in their original packaging) directly to the Hospital please get in touch with:
JUNAX
Calle Ejercito Nacional no.17
Barrio del Cerrillo
C.P. 29220
SCLC, Chiapas,
Mexico
Tel. 0052 967 67-4-5133
junax@seva.org www.seva.org/junax
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irresponsible?
16.01.2005 02:31
also if they are fighting for autonomy, shouldn't we be promoting alternative medicine, as they are doing and not a depencency on the multinational corporations poison.
i think it is a great flagging up of an area where the zapatista comunities need help. but send them cash. you get 24 pesos for a pound. they can buy their own drugs. mexico and enerally the whole of indoamerica is full of pharmacies. huge pharmacies, everywhere. the biotech are turning people into hipocondriacs. it is a better food regime they need, rather than their fragile combo of maize and beans. not drugs. they dont need huge amounts of drugs. neither the zapatistas nor indigenous peoples in general. they need to be paid fairly for their produce, so they can get some security from their income. it is fighting aginst the changes in the weather that farmers around the world are suffering, and which leaves them with nothing when their staple crops fail. it is fighting against a world trade system that is incredibly controlled for the benefit of the rich northern farmers, and their governements, and leaves southern farmers with no local or international market in which to compete, and with no future in the land.
in short, what the zapatista children and grandchildren need is international solidarity so they can keep on building their autonomy and their day to day struggle against neoliberalism and for dignity, but also and most importantly they need movements in the north to be strong, mature, effective and focused so that we can REALLY throw the neoliberalist system that we contribute to into the recycle bin, and not just pretend that we are doing something.
backpackers are bringing all sorts of chemicals into the isolated caracol of la realidad, for which the locals, living a hard peasant life growing maize, beans and small amounts of coffee, have little use, and most importantly they dont know how to use them. so at best they throw them away - and burn them. illnesses in the jungle or the highlands of chiapas are quite specific. pain killers are ok, but they have to be used sporadically or you buy a resistance to them, and you need more.
i think it is great to send them hospital equipment, they need it if you have loads lying around and can afford the postage, or show soidarity thu money, buy zapatista coffe, but NEVER, use this form of asistencialism as an excuse to avoid getting involved with a live of resistamce to your own neoliberal government, one of the g8, the companies that control them, like BP, bayer, syngenta, etc.
NEVER to avoid changing your cozy life style, work for your own autonomy, as they published sometime ago, activism is good for your health so you will be doing something for the zapatistas, for yourself, for dignity and humanity.
see you in the streets.
alegre rebeldia.
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