#thenetherlands
Just out of curiosity I decided to check the figures of the latest #covid cases in the #Netherlands. To my surprise, the daily measurement of cases has temporarily stopped, but it says on the official website it will be resumed in a couple of days. There was still some data though, and what surprised me the most, is that the official government site reports an increase of 59% in people being hospitalized due to covid from the last week of 2022 to the first week of 2023. 59% increase!!! That is a lot. Considering overload of hospitals was the main cause of previous lockdowns, I wonder if we could be facing the possibility of another #lockdown in the future...
Third time is the charm. Not really #newhere, but after #joindiaspora and #Anjara pods closed, I was invited to Diasp.org by @V. T. Eric Layton. Thanks for the invite!
Looking forward to settling down here.
You will see posts about:
#science #philosophy #music (specially #jazz and #FrankZappa ) #fermentation (specially #WaterKefir and #sourdough ) #HigherEducation #Amsterdam #TheNetherlands (or #Nederland in the local language) plus some #randomthoughts . I have lately been getting into #psychiatry and #criminology has always been an intellectual interest for me. I am of course a user of #Linux but I am not that tech-savy. I do know #R because I teach #statistics . I am also interested in #SASS if you know what that means. I am probably forgetting stuff, but that is enough for now :)
ACUPUNCTURISTS WITHOUT BORDERS IS ORGANIZING IN THE NETHERLANDS
Acupuncturists Without Borders (AWB) is actively organizing support for people being forced to flee Ukraine, including Ukrainian citizens, students and migrants from other countries, and
refugees from Africa and the Middle East who once again have to find safe haven.
Currently, in the Netherlands we are:
* Identifying and securing locations for pop-up clinics, to treat refugees. Pop-up clinic sites need to be clean, safe spaces. We will be providing auricular treatments, therefore we will not need treatment tables! Patients just need comfortable seating. Ideally, we would have a 4 hour time block for set up/breakdown, and to administer treatments on a rolling basis. Depending on the availability of space and volunteer practitioners, we can set up sites at multiple locations, with a minimum frequency of every other week. We also want to make sure locations are as close as possible to where refugees will be staying, so they do not have to go far. If you have leads on potential clinic sites, please let us know as soon as possible
Organizing supplies and donations. We will need seating, needles, alcohol swabs, sharps containers, mouth caps, and everything else you can think of
Starting to screen interested volunteers. All practitioners are welcome. We would especially love to work with local Acupuncture schools, to give student acupuncturists an opportunity to gain clinical experience by treating incoming refugees.
While we appreciate the interest of many people to provide direct services, we have to establish a workable service infrastructure rst. This takes time, money, planning, and help with administration, logistics, public outreach and resource mobilization on the ground. Please let us know if you can contribute any of these skills/actions to this effort!
Information is updated every few days on our website: https://acuwithoutborders.org/ukraine.
Please check for updates here periodically.
If you would like to help out here in the Netherlands, please contact
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASEAnnette Tapia-Cornet
Email: annette@freespiritacu.com
WhatsApp: 6 15 41 59 30
and/or
Marianne Ten Westenend
Email: info@mariannetenwestenend.nl
WhatsApp: 6 53 72 82 97
We thank you in advance for your support!
#acupuncture #AWB #ukraine #acupuncturistswithoutborders #refugees #thenetherlands
