Following the donation of MdM-Greece for the reconstruction of the floor of the Palamas Health Centre, the General Director of MdM-Greece Evgenia Thanou delivered a defibrillator to the Palamas Municipality to cover the health needs of the local population.
On Wednesday 22 May 2024, a team of MdM-Greece, led by the General Director of the organization Evgenia Thanou, visited Palamas Karditsa – a region where people and infrastructure were brutally tested by the devastating storm wave “Daniel” that swept Thessaly in September 2023. Accompanied by members of MdM’s Thessaly Help Desk, which has been operating permanently in the region since November 2023, Mrs. Thanou went to the town hall, where she delivered a defibrillator-donation to the Municipality of Palamas to cover health needs of the local population, in another act of practical support for our affected fellow people.
Earlier the same day, the MdM-Greece team had visited the Palamas Health Centre, the floor of which had been totally destroyed by the floods and has now been handed back to the community reconstructed with a donation from MdM.
Renovation of the floor of the Palamas Health Centre
Completion of the renovation works
MDM-GREECE RESPONSE IN THESSALY
In an emergency response to the major crisis, MdM-Greece was present in Thessaly since the beginning of September, initially by sending emergency material and medical aid. Then, after mapping the enormous needs of flood-affected people, and after it became clear that a fragmented presence could not work effectively, MdM-Greece remained at the front line of the crisis response with their permanent establishment in the region, setting up the Thessaly Help Desk in Palamas Karditsa.
Through the Help Desk in Thessaly, MdM-Greece provides daily health care, material needs coverage, medication coverage, health promotion, as well as psychosocial support and counseling to systematically manage the trauma caused to people who found themselves homeless, especially the most vulnerable people in the population, such as the elderly, people with disabilities, children, women, ethnic minorities or people with low income.
At the same time, during the nine months of continuous presence in Thessaly, the MdM-Greece Mobile Health Units reached even the most remote and inaccessible places, providing services in 21 communities and areas in order to ensure immediate, safe and unhindered access to basic health services for all residents of the region affected by the floods.