News about the orga­ni­sa­ti­on

An inter­view with Dr Rena­te Turan and Nor­bert Kess­ler on the reope­ning of the neo­na­to­lo­gy depart­ment in Asma­ra

A ten-strong team of sur­ge­ons, ortho­pae­dic sur­ge­ons, anaes­the­tists and nur­ses once again tra­vel­led to Tosa­ma­gan­ga Hos­pi­tal in Tan­z­a­nia in mid-Febru­a­ry. Under the direc­tion of Dr Naim Far­hat, Head of Paed­ia­tric Sur­gery at Johan­­ni­­ter-Kli­­ni­ken Hamm, the spe­cia­lists work­ed in two teams and were able to ope­ra­te on a total of 48 child­ren during the 16-day mis­si­on.

In Eri­trea, the­re was pre­vious­ly no way to tre­at child­ren with can­cer. An esti­ma­ted 500 child­ren are dia­gno­sed with can­cer the­re every year — so far wit­hout any medi­cal care. Thanks to the com­mit­ment of Archemed and the sup­port of the RTL Foun­da­ti­on, the coun­try­’s first paed­ia­tric onco­lo­gy unit was ope­ned on 13 Febru­ary 2025 under the pro­ject manage­ment of Prof. Dr Uta Dirk­sen from Essen Uni­ver­si­ty Hos­pi­tal.

Medi­cal care, par­ti­cu­lar­ly in rural are­as of Afgha­ni­stan, is cri­ti­cal. Accor­ding to the UN Huma­ni­ta­ri­an Assis­tance Report 2024, more than 18.1 mil­li­on peo­p­le in the pro­vin­ces have no access to basic medi­cal care. Against this back­drop, Archemed will con­ti­nue its work in Afgha­ni­stan. Tog­e­ther with the Afghan Women’s Asso­cia­ti­on, Archemed is ope­ning a mother and child day cli­nic in Kariz Mir in Kabul pro­vin­ce in April.

Tog­e­ther with ‘Ukrai­­ne-Hil­­fe Del­brück’, the asso­cia­ti­on ARCHEMED — Ärz­te für Kin­der in Not e. V. sent the first aid con­voy of 2025 on its way to Ukrai­ne. The aid deli­veries rea­ched the cities of Lviv, Kiev and Kharkiv. Nine dri­vers cover­ed a total of 4,700 kilo­me­t­res in seven days.

The six-week assign­ment of neo­na­to­lo­gist Anto­nia Bar­tetz­ko mark­ed the offi­ci­al start of the GZI’s ‘Hos­pi­tal Part­ner­ships’ pro­gram­me bet­ween the Cha­ri­té Ber­lin and the Refer­ral Hos­pi­tal in Thim­phu, Bhu­tan.

The reno­va­ti­on of the lar­ge cli­nic for burns pati­ents in Asma­ra is very clo­se to our hearts and has made good pro­gress thanks to the efforts of the ele­ven-strong con­s­truc­tion team led by gra­dua­te engi­neer Timm Mit­zen­heim. A defec­ti­ve roof had cau­sed mould to form…