What is our organization exactly?
As a result of the experiences gained through my earlier creative activities (2002 earthquake in India, 2005 tsunami in Indonesia, 2005 earthquake in Pakistan) aroused the idea of my to establish a specially equipped and trained medical team in Hungary.
I partly managed to carry out my plan earlier within a foundation, whose work was not primarily based on the medical team though. It was current and also timely to set up a Special Medical and Rescue Team operating on behalf of the University of Debrecen. Our team was formed with the support of Prof. Dr. Édes István Centrum deputy chairman as a member of the University Senate and of Mr. Kecskés Gábor Director of Economics.
Since we are operating as a foundation, all the accessories of our team (medicine, instruments and other devices necessary for defence against catastrophe) must be supported by our own resources.
The establishment of the Special Medical and Rescue Team entails a number of benefits for our university:
In Europe and in Hungary only one medical university, the DEOEC operates such a team uniquely. The medical team can represent our country respectively (finely emphasising our university) in the course of the potential foreign rescue operations.
Some arrangements are also being made by the marketing field to increase the reputation of the university. Subsequently an independent training method has been launched at the University (Basics for Special Rescue), which could result in the strengthening for the physicians' and medical students' charitable mentality.
Organized participation in national and international charitable programmes could be realized (delivering aid supplies to the Hungarian country under water and to international disaster areas as well as coordinating their distribution). Owing to our previous activities we can assure the continual presence of the media as a reference. In several cases we left for the disaster area accompanied by the media as a matter of routine.
Our Hungarian rescues are constantly followed with attention, and now, the launching of an entirely new, so far non-existent programme is likewise in the centre of notice, since after successfully obtaining an all-terrain vehicle, we can start a constant screening of the homeless people in the Hungarian cities and in the Hungarian and Transylvanian Children's Homes as well as monitoring all those people suffering from a chronic illness and living in settlements without easy access (farms, small villages).