One big „THANK YOU“ has to be said!
Much has been said and written about all the negative aspects of the COVID-19 pandemic. However, this crisis has also revealed something very positive: „Good people are not yet extinct!“ Thanks to the willingness, generosity, and selflessness of many individuals, institutions, and donors, ADRA Slovakia was also able to lend a hand. We tried to help on the front lines, wherever we felt it was […]
ADRA distributes immunity-boosting vitamins for the elderly
Seniors are most at risk from the COVID-19 coronavirus. That is why we have decided to focus our assistance on this age group as well. In the crisis management team, we watched with concern how quickly the virus can spread in nursing homes. We are glad that, thanks to strict adherence to quarantine measures, they were protected from a massive spread of the virus. However, weeks of isolation, restrictions on movement, and limited social contact with families have in no way […]
ADRA helps to separate white and red zones in hospitals with filters
The number of patients diagnosed with COVID-19 is increasing. Therefore, „red zones“ are being created in hospital wards, where strict epidemiological measures are in force. The catastrophic situation in Italy, Spain, England, the USA... has shown how important it is to protect hospitals. If health workers become infected, who will treat us? If whole wards are quarantined, where will we put the patients? ADRA was given the task of quickly building lightweight partitions (filters) [...]
TEST CENTRES for COVID-19
The COVID-19 coronavirus pandemic has become a challenge for us to use the experience of foreign humanitarian missions at home. When a request for cooperation came from the infectiology clinic of the hospital in Bratislava in Kramary, we immediately set to work. The task: to quickly build a COVID-19 patient testing centre outside the hospital building. We secured container cells that serve as clinics to test patients [...]
COVID-19 - Public collection to fight COVID-19
ADRA Slovakia announces a public collection to help in the fight against coronavirus. Your contribution will help us cover the costs of setting up and running the COVID-19 testing centre at the Infectology Clinic of the UNB, which ADRA helped to set up and provides part of the logistics. You will help us cover the material costs of setting up the centre, renting containers, buying the necessary protective and hygienic equipment, the service of volunteers and [...]
COVID-19 - The masks help!
One of the measures to improve the situation regarding the Corona virus is drapes. I bring you some information: do you know how to use a drape correctly? The WHO (World Health Organization) advises this: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lrvFrH_npQI&feature=emb_title&fbclid=IwAR3XsBOiF-sjc3g0EOJ8lgGiFlKixXvpVAfZCXDdbtZ4GC_BsIXeXZLlsmE How to make a veil, advises Dana Kleinert: https://www.facebook.com/dana.kleinert.39/videos/10222905284200120/?t=0 And here is an infographic on veil use from the Police of the Slovak Republic: https://www.facebook.com/policiaslovakia/photos/a.1522428691120681/3191815764181957/?type=3&theater We also have a suggestion for you: send us [...]
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