THE CAMPAIGN
Caritas Lublin has begun cooperation with the Association of Polish Ophthalmic Surgeons, whose president is Professor Robert Rejdak from the University Clinical Hospital No. 1 in Lublin, Poland.
Our priority is to raise funds necessary for the purchase of a surgical microscope,which, in collaboration with Caritas-Spes-Kharkiv, will be donated to the Military Hospital in Kharkiv for the ophthalmology department. The microscope will be used, in response to great demand, for treating both war victims and regular patients. At present, the hospital has only outdated equipment, which frequently breaks down, making this an urgent and critical need!
"Colleagues from Kharkiv emphasize that they do not have such a microscope. They only have very old and faulty equipment. The estimated cost of an optimal microscope that meets all the requirements for work on the front line is around half a million zloty," (around $ 130k)says Professor Rejdak.
"Since the very beginning of the war in Ukraine, we have been supporting our neighbors from across the eastern border—both those who fled the war and came to the Lublin region and those who remained in Ukraine. We offer special support to the beneficiaries of Caritas-Spes in Kharkiv,led by Fr. Wojciech Stasiewicz, who comes from our archdiocese. Although he could have returned to the safety of Poland, he chose to stay and stand by the people in their time of tragedy. We cannot leave them alone," says Fr. Łukasz Mudrak, Director of Caritas Lublin in Poland.
"The Military Hospital in Kharkiv reached out to Professor Rejdak, who heads the Association of Ophthalmic Polish Surgeons, with a request for assistance in acquiring a specialized surgical microscope. Together with Professor Rejdak, we are organizing this campaign. We want to do this also in collaboration with Caritas-Spes-Kharkiv so that Kharkiv Caritas becomes a guarantor in transferring this equipment to the hospital,"adds Fr. Adam Raczkowski, a proxy of the Director of Caritas Lublin for humanitarian aid.
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