A group of Argentine doctors traveled to Poland on Monday night to provide humanitarian aid to Ukrainian refugees, on a mission where they will attend to “physical, emotional and traumatic problems, associated with the situation that this population is suffering,” Pablo Rozic told Télam , psychiatrist, member of the entourage.
Four Argentine doctors will leave for the Polish city of Premislia, near the border with Ukraine, to provide humanitarian assistance to refugees together with specialists from the Lublin Medical University Hospital, thanks to a agreement signed between the Center for Medical Education and Clinical Research “Norberto Quirno” (Cemic) and the Hadassah medical center International.
“The agreement allows and enables us to participate in this humanitarian mission, which was started very quickly by Hadassah” after the Russian intervention in Ukraine. “That participation meant the opening of refugee centers that at first were massive, in quite uncontrollable waves,” said Rozic, head of psychiatry at Cemic.
The psychiatrist told Télam that he lived for several years in Israel and participated in “situations that had the characteristics of massive disasters or massive trauma situations, that’s where my experience comes from.
As for the rest of the team, made up of a pediatrician and two family doctors, they will face “for the first time” this type of situation.
“They are doctors with very good problem-solving skills and a very good level of training, and therefore we are very motivated and excited to participate in this humanitarian mission,” said Rozic.
In turn, the specialist maintained that “Cemic has a long history of participating in this type of mission and humanitarian action, since the hospital institution was also present in Cúcuta on the border between Colombia and Venezuela, and in northern Argentina. “.
In this way, in the entourage of doctors, who traveled this Monday night In a flight organized by the pilot and actor Enrique Piñeyro, he pointed out that they are all “very motivated and excited to participate in this humanitarian mission.”
“What we are going to do is continue with the care that the medical teams that are on site are providing,” Rozic said. “Mostly they are physical, emotional and traumatic problems, associated with the situation that this (Ukrainian) population is suffering.”
Among these problems, he explained, are the “typical illnesses” of people who move from one place to another until they reach the refugee reception center, which implies dealing with “infectious, emotional and traumatic issues, among others.”
In addition, professionals have the possibility of referring to more complex centers “all those cases of clinical situations that cannot be resolved in an outpatient clinic and with a wide variety of medical specialties,” explained Rozic.
For her part, Dana Potin, a pediatrician who will travel with the delegation of Argentine professionals, said that she studied at the National University of Rosario and in the last year she chose the city of Salta for her residency, where she was in the city of Campo Quijano and worked with the population of the local wichi community.
“Saving distances, as an experience it is the first time that I am going to do something so great a humanitarian”, he told Télam.
He added that he has “all the expectations. I am happy, content and wanting to contribute, for me it is a great emotion”, said the pediatrician, who added that this will be her first trip to Europe.
The doctors are expected to stay on the mission for approximately 12 days, working rotating 12-hour shifts.
“The duration has to do with the care of those who care, this means that it is an amount of time that does not harm those of us who help care”Rozic explained.
As for the patients they will attend, the psychiatrist explained that, based on the conversations with the people who are in the place, the “nature of the demand is mainly made up of women, children and older adults, since since the start of the war men cannot leave (Ukraine) because they are under the flag”.
In that sense, the Cemic doctors will treat “families that were dismembered, with people who were left quite adrift and who, from a medical point of view, have suspended treatments and consultations,” Rozic explained.
The doctor added that to this situation will be added “all the emotional impact of this phenomenal process of rupture, of laceration of families and people”, suffered by refugees.
The psychiatrist explained that the refugee center is “about an hour and a half from the place where we are going to spend the night, therefore there will be many hours of activity every day,” he concluded.
