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MEDEVAC Programme in Syria

Due to the growing number of armed conflicts around the world (Libya, Syria, Ukraine), the MEDEVAC Programme has once again been addressing war injuries of adult patients, too, since 2011. Consequently, Syrian refugees were evacuated to the Czech Republic for the first time.

Implementation of the MEDEVAC Programme for citizens of the Syrian Arab Republic was approved by Resolution No. 522 of the Government of the Czech Republic of 11 July 2012. The Syrian patients for the MEDEVAC Programme were chosen from among the victims of the interventions carried out by the pro-regime armed forces, or they were patients with different conditions, which could not be adequately treated under the given circumstances. They were evacuated directly from Syria or from the Hashemite Kingdom of Jordan to which they fled from the war. After the armed conflict broke out in Syria, the number of refugees dramatically increased in Jordan and this resulted in ongoing deterioration of the humanitarian situation. In autumn 2013, the government approved continuation of the programme for humanitarian evacuations of inhabitants affected by health problems for citizens of the Syrian Arab Republic.

The medical team from the Children’s Heart Centre at the Motol University Hospital operated in Amman, the capital city of Jordan, where it carried out surgeries of congenital heart defects in children. At the same time, two patients were selected who were subsequently transported to the Czech Republic for surgery. During the next medical mission from the General University Hospital in Prague and the Motol University Hospital in the specialised medical fields of traumatology and orthopaedics, the purpose of which was to select Syrian patients in Jordan, another 46 Syrians were examined, including 35 in Amman and 11 in the Zaatari Refugee Camp, and some of them were chosen for treatment in the Czech Republic.

Under a joint agreement among the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, the Ministry of Health and the Ministry of the Interior, the programme for humanitarian evacuations of inhabitants affected by health problems continued to be implemented for Syrian refugees in Jordan in the second half of the year 2014. The Government of the Czech Republic adopted Resolution No. 870 on 27 October 2014 regarding this matter. This meant that evacuations were not the end of it. Resolution No. 870 was implemented in the form of a short-term deployment of three Czech specialised medical teams to Jordan. These were specialised teams from the Motol University Hospital (cardiac surgery, orthopaedics) and the Na Bulovce Hospital (plastic and reconstructive surgery).

Thus, the assistance was concentrated on treating war injuries of Syrian refugees from refugee camps as well as on carrying out surgeries in Syrian child and adult patients with acquired and congenital defects of the musculoskeletal system or heart. The MEDEVAC Programme’s long-term focus in Jordan was on treatment and surgeries for vulnerable groups of population, i.e. both Syrian refugees in Jordan and underprivileged Jordanian citizens for whom medical care is usually inaccessible.

Moreover, starting from the year 2017, we have been carrying out medical missions in Lebanon, too, for the same reasons because the humanitarian situation there deteriorated with the arrival of Syrian refugees. Thus, thanks to MEDEVAC, refugees not only receive the necessary health care, which would otherwise be inaccessible to most of them due to the situation there, but MEDEVAC also participates in developing the healthcare infrastructure in these countries; see MEDEVAC Programme in Jordan and MEDEVAC Programme in Lebanon for more information.

2012 - 2013

a total of 14 persons (with war injuries or heart defects) were transported from Syria to the Czech Republic where they received treatment, among whom there were 8 adults and 6 children

2014 - present

medical missions in Jordan and Lebanon in various specialised medical fields (cardiac surgery, traumatology, orthopaedics, plastic and reconstructive surgery, ophthalmology)

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