Africa-Press – Gambia. The BRICS+ Commission on Value-Based Humanitarian Cooperation and Interfaith Dialogue has launched a humanitarian project to help refugee children in Uganda, Dmitry Kuznetsov, one of the commission’s founders and a member of the Russian Parliament, told.
Russian medical mission kicked off within the framework of the BRICS+ Humanitarian Commission’s project.
The volunteer mission arrived in the DR Congo capital, Kinshasa, to train staff and conduct joint practice in the maternity unit.In the upcoming week, the mission will be reinforced by the addition of two more doctors (a neonatologist and a pediatric intensive care specialist). Subsequently, the team will extend their volunteer services to Kampala Hospital in Uganda.
According to the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees, Uganda is home to about 1.6 million refugees, most of them from South Sudan and the Democratic Republic of the Congo.
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