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Dr. Yousef Motii conducts medical outreach in the destroyed Spanish Lakes neighborhood in Ft. Pierce, Florida. Motii is a clinician at Oceana Health, which has been providing medical services to residents impacted by recent hurricanes. (Photo by Bimarian Films)
Over the past 7 days, Direct Relief has delivered 470 shipments of requested medical aid to 41 U.S. states and territories and 10 countries worldwide. The shipments contained 4.7M defined daily doses of medication.
Medications and supplies shipped this week included field medic packs for triage care, thyroid medications, anti-inflammatory medications, personal protective equipment, rare disease therapies, and more.
Mobile Health Services Reach Hurricane-Battered Communities
Oceana Community Health Clinic staff distribute Direct Relief-provided personal hygiene kits for people displaced in Fort Pierce, Florida. (Photo by Bimarian Films)
Oceana Community Health Clinic staff distribute Direct Relief-provided personal hygiene kits for people displaced in Fort Pierce, Florida. (Photo by Bimarian Films)
Dr. Yousef Motii conducts medical outreach in the destroyed Spanish Lakes neighborhood in Ft. Pierce, Florida. Motii is a clinician at Oceana Health, which has been providing medical services to residents impacted by recent hurricanes. (Photo by Bimarian Films)
Dr. Yousef Motii works with local law enforcement to conducts medical outreach in the destroyed Spanish Lakes neighborhood in Ft. Pierce, Florida. Motii is a clinician at Oceana Health, which has been providing medical services to residents impacted by recent hurricanes. (Photo by Bimarian Films)
Dr. Yousef Motii conducts medical outreach in the destroyed Spanish Lakes neighborhood in Ft. Pierce, Florida. Motii is a clinician at Oceana Health, which has been providing medical services to residents impacted by recent hurricanes. (Photo by Bimarian Films)
Damage seen from deadly Hurricane Milton in the Spanish Lakes community of Fort Pierce, Florida. (Photo by Bimarian Films)
Dr. Yousef Motii conducts medical outreach in the destroyed Spanish Lakes neighborhood in Ft. Pierce, Florida. Motii is a clinician at Oceana Health, which has been providing medical services to residents impacted by recent hurricanes. (Photo by Bimarian Films)
Dr. Yousef Motii works with local law enforcement to conducts medical outreach in the destroyed Spanish Lakes neighborhood in Ft. Pierce, Florida. Motii is a clinician at Oceana Health, which has been providing medical services to residents impacted by recent hurricanes. (Photo by Bimarian Films)
Emergency response continues for Direct Relief as communities in the southeastern U.S. recover from back-to-back hurricanes.
As of October 25, Direct Relief had dispatched 111 shipments of specifically requested emergency medical aid valued at nearly $2.5 million to 26 healthcare providers responding to the needs of storm-affected communities in Florida, North Carolina, South Carolina, and Tennessee.
Among medical items shipped are antibiotics, emergency medical backpacks, hygiene kits, over-the-counter products, personal protective equipment, and medications to manage chronic diseases, as well as tetanus vaccine, hepatitis A and B vaccines, epinephrine for allergic reactions from bee and yellow jacket stings, oral rehydration salts, and water purification tablets.
Recently, Dr. Yousef Motii, a clinician for Oceana Community Health who has been providing medical outreach in the Spanish Lakes community, which was hard-hit by tornadoes during Hurricane Milton’s path, delivered Direct Relief-donated hygiene items to the community. Dr. Motii also used a Direct Relief field medic pack to support the triage care of patients.
An eight-pallet shipment of antibiotic therapies recently arrived for cancer patients in Gaza living with reduced immunity. The Turkish-Palestinian Friendship Hospital has historically treated thousands of patients with cancer in Gaza, but the hospital became non-operational until a recent relocation of services to Khan Younis in southern Gaza.
NGO Anera, which worked with Direct Relief to transport the donation into Gaza, delivered the medication to the hospital’s relocated facility, which includes a cancer treatment center.
Direct Relief continues to provide humanitarian support to Gaza and regionally. So far in 2024, Direct Relief has provided more than $255 million in requested aid across the region, including to Egypt, Gaza, Iraq, Israel, Lebanon, Syria, Turkey, West Bank, and Yemen.
California Free Clinics Convene at Direct Relief
Direct Relief staff welcomed representatives from more than 33 free clinics across the state of California on Oct. 25, 2024, at Direct Relief. (Lara Cooper/Direct Relief)
Representatives from more than 33 free clinics across the state of California convened this week at Direct Relief.
The California Association of Free and Charitable Clinics Annual Conference and Membership meeting met in Direct Relief’s Hatch Hall on Friday morning, kicking off a two-day conference, covering topics including sustainable funding strategies, legal and policy issues, and the current landscape in the state for free and charitable medical care.
Direct Relief staff welcomed the clinic representatives, briefing attendees on the history of the organization, Direct Relief’s work to support free clinics in the state during wildfires, floods, and the Covid-19 pandemic, as well as product support available for request.
Since 2008, Direct Relief has supported 71 free and charitable clinics throughout California with more than $30 million worth of medicines and medical supplies. Fifteen clinics across the state have also received $1.29 million in cash grants to support programs focused on health equity and mental health.
Operational Snapshot
UNITED STATES
Direct Relief delivered 445 shipments containing 1.8M doses of medication during the past seven days to organizations, including the following:
PanCare RX, Florida
Community Volunteers in Medicine, Pennsylvania
PryMed Medical Care, Inc., Puerto Rico
Fundacion Manos Juntas, Oklahoma
Morton Comprehensive Health Services, Oklahoma
UHI CommunityCare Clinic, Florida
Community Care Clinic, North Carolina
New Song Health Center, Illinois
Mercy Medical Clinic, Kentucky
Healthy Mothers, Healthy Babies Coalition of Hawai’i, Hawai’i
Around the World
Globally, Direct Relief shipped over 1.7M defined daily doses of medication totaling 22,179lbs., to countries including the following:
Senegal
Malawi
Yemen
St. Lucia
India
Zimbabwe
Guatemala
Sudan
YEAR TO DATE
Since January 1, 2024, Direct Relief has delivered 20.3K shipments to 2,269 partner organizations in 54 U.S. states and territories and 88 countries. These shipments contained 349.5M defined daily doses of medication valued at $1.4B (wholesale) and totaled 4.3M lbs.
