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Saving hospitals to protect lives in conflict regions We are living in difficult and complicated times. We are all aware that many people are struggling and having a hard time. But we should not forget, we are not alone. Others might need help too. That is why Immucura Med created a task force to help and save hospitals in need. Hospitals struggle because of the Covid situation, but they are the key to prevent further escalations. They are the only emergency care in their region, and we need to make sure that they are functioning. Immucura Med has set itself the task of starting exactly at this point and saving hospitals to save lives. To start with this project, Immucura Med has picked a very specific object, the Levant Hospital in Beirut. This region has experienced a huge damage, the financial crisis and the health situation in Lebanon has to be taken very seriously. The Levant Hospital is unique in Beirut, but it is going through a very tough financial situation. Supplies and medicines must be purchased in Dollar, meanwhile the patients pay in Lebanese lira. Together with a team of experts, Immucura took the initiative to save the hospital. The aim is to set up the first and only stroke and heart disease ambulance in Lebanon so that emergency patients can receive the therapy that is so important in the first few hours. In addition, the hospital is to be repositioned as the first integrative hospital in the Middle East with alternative highperformance therapies. “My goal is to bring European medicine standards to the hospital and help people in need”, says Johannes Schumacher, CEO of Immucura Med. The company was founded by him in 2014 with the aim to offer advanced and personalized alternative medical options for people suffering from cancer. Within three years, Immucura Med started enabling DCT treatments, and from 2018, Immucura Med began to expand its services to other countries. It established branches in Germany, the United Kingdom and Gibraltar. This new project in Beirut is just the start of an interesting journey and adventure Immucura Med has taken on. Hopefully in the future there will be many more hospitals saved from financial ruin, repositioned I to help the ones, who really are in need: the patients. Written by Abdelhadi Rhiti uBe-7
