On August 6, International Day “Doctors of the World for Peace” is celebrated. The date is devoted to such an event as the bombing of the Japanese city of Hiroshima using nuclear weapons. Today on this day all victims are remembered and try to prevent what happened again.
On the protection of the health of modern society, there are many different organizations - from those that work in the field of healthcare, to charitable ones. One of these is the organization "Doctors of the world." Who are they and what are they doing?
The history of the creation
In 1978, 2564 refugees from Vietnam sailed in the Chinese sea on one of the Suden. No country wanted to accept them. Then they placed a poster on the ship with the inscription that they were threatened with hunger and epidemics, as well as a call to the UN to save them. Several doctors, among whom was the physician Bernard Kushner, as well as social activists and journalists, went on a special hospital ship to the humanitarian disaster. They set their goal to treat and show how sad people are on the boat. On May 21, 1980, a new association was born, called the “doctors of the world” (it is “doctors without borders”). The following points were selected by its main directions: go where others do not want, testify to intolerance and work on a voluntary basis.
World Association
The Association "Doctors of the World" is an international non -profit humanitarian organization from among non -governmental. It includes mainly specialists from the healthcare sector. Doctors consider them the main direction of activity and voluntary cooperation, which contribute to the participation of doctors and representatives of the health protection sector in various charitable projects aimed at saving the life and health of particularly vulnerable sections of the population.
Today, representatives of the association work in 51 countries in the world, including Russia. “Doctors of the world” are also considered an advisory body under the Economic and Social Council of the UN.
As noted in official documents, “doctors of the world” provide assistance to people who are in difficult life conditions and situations for a number of reasons, including catastrophes, war, adverse social situations (migrants), violence, isolation on a geographical basis (small peoples located from medical institutions).
“Doctors of the world” work where people need help, and these can be different countries, cities and regions. So, for example, in the area of their attention, the regions affected by natural disasters, zones with active military operations, large cities of France, inaccessible regions, which also also notes an extremely harsh climate.
The methods of work of such ministers of medicine are also interesting. They, as a rule, work in a close bundle with the doctors and authorities of the problem regions. At the same time, doctors of this organization prefer to interact on the basis of partnerships, and not directly participating (the exception is only their work in the conditions of disasters). The “doctors of the world” has their own developing - the methodology of communal healthcare. According to the idea of humanitarian doctors, patients are extremely active in their treatment, and the training of others is an important direction in the organization of the organization.
Organization specialists conduct regular trainings, training programs and other interaction procedures with others that can more actively help those who need people and solve rather serious issues and problems that are faced with society.
