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Source: Chicago-Kent College of Law
By: Zel Bodulovic
TO: Whom It May Concern
DATE: 29 November 1994
SUBJECT: APPEAL FOR HELP FROM BIHAC HOSPITAL -LIST OF URGENT NEEDS
Dear Madam/Sir,
Please find below the summary of the appeal letter we received from Dr. Bekir Tatlic, Director of the Bihac Hospital. Hope you can provide at least some of the needs listed and help them urgently improve the situation in the Hospital.
"For November a pre-decided quantity of food arrived. For December we were promised another delivery, but nothing has arrived. The amount of food designated for the Hospital by UNCHR is for 400-500 sick and wounded patients, however we have around 1,100 sick and wounded patients in the Hospital while the Hospital canteen is feeding a large number of refugees (around 1,900) with the amount of food planned for 400-500. We require about twice that amount of food.
Our most urgent foor requirements are:
- flour
- rice
- canned vegetables
- salt
- fish
- dried foods
- sugar
- oil & seasoning
We must also stress an urgency for a large quantity of baby food which
we have not received for some time now. It is hard to say what we need
because we do not know how much aid you can offer us. The absolute
basic needs are: FLOUR, CANNED FOODS and BABY FOOD.
The Hospital has currently around 1,100 patients and we are having to
use other unsuitable spaces to house these patients. Since we are not
in a position to evacuate the most severely injured, their numbers are
growing daily.
Via IRCR we received medecines for the last 2 months. However these
medicines were only in a small quantity and were for cronic illnesses
which at this moment is not needed. We also received an insufficient
amount of surgical materials in relation to the Hospital needs.
Our urgent requirements are as follows:
- blood bags (large and small)
- serum for all blood groups
- serum antitetanicum
- infusion systems
- transfusion systems
- baby system
- PVC NEEDLES 21G (08x38) x 39
- bags for anus preter
- folijevi kateteri
- sterile operating gloves (7,7.5,8)
- X-ray film of all dimensions, fixer and developer
- scalpels
- external fixers (pins)
- syringes (5,10,20 ml)
- sonde gastric
- glucose (5% and 10% infusions)
- physiological solutions
- Ringer solutions
- wanitol (10% and 20%)
- diazepan (tbl and amp)
- buscopan (tbl and amp)
- akineton
- aspirin (panadon)
- antibiotic cream for skin
- kortikosteriodne cream
- H2 blocks (tbl and amp)
- antidiaroici (tbl)
- anti-rheumatic non-steroids
- voltaren amp
- analgin amp trodon amp
- pentazocie
- plasme expandors
- baktrin tbl
- betadin sol
- garamicin amp
- cefalesporins
- hydrocortizone amp
- laksansi
Thank you in advance for all your help and humanitarian assistance,
Dr. Bekir Tatlic
Director, Bihac Hospital
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