Security must also include good medical care
Brigadier General Robert
Bund handed over medical equipment and furnishings to the children's
ward at Prizren hospital
Prizren, Kosovo – It was with a little unease that the little boys
and girls looked at the accumulated crowd: Safely tucked in mom's arms
they watched in amazement the large crowd pushing along the floors
and from room to room in the children's ward of the Prizren Municipal
Hospital. Although at the moment only their parents and, of course,
the hospital staff knew, it was in fact the children and their medical
care for whom this crowd had arrived. In the presence of the Director
of the Municipality of Prizren, Ramadan Muja, and watched by over a
dozen media representatives, the commander of the German Kosovo Force
Contingent, Brigadier General Robert Bund, presented the clinic management
with a donation in kind worth 5,600 euros, which will significantly
improve the equipment of the children's ward.
The donation in kind was made possible by the proceeds of collections organized
by "Lachen helfen" (2,000 euros); by the project "Von Mensch
zu Mensch" (2,000 euros) initiated here in Kosovo by Brigadier General
Bund; by the military chaplains (500 euros), and by the proceeds from a charity
concert at the Prizren Conservatory (1,081 euros). In coordination with the
hospital management, the CIMIC/LM company locally acquired medical equipment,
pictures to brighten up the walls and a TV set and children's DVDs to distract
the little ones a little bit.
The commander felt it important to present the equipment to the clinic management
in person in order to demonstrate the solidarity between KFOR and local charity
organizations because, as he said, a country's security also includes good
medical care. "We have always felt that we are here to help, and we
have seen that, in part due to the participation and support of German physicians,
health care here in Kosovo has significantly improved over the last years," General
Bund added.
Prizren Mayor Ramadan Muja and the head of the Municipality Health Office,
Tyran Kosova, conveyed their effusive thanks. Both also agree that the medical
care of the children must be considered a focal point of the region's health
service. Accompanied by clinical director Lumnije Hoxha, the German delegation
concluded their visit with a "sick call" in one of the patient
rooms of the children's ward.
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