Order of Malta has donated $1000 MM to the DR in gear, medication and meals

Santo Domingo. – The Sovereign Order of Malta has donated greater than RD$1 billion in gear, medication and meals in 2022 and the primary half of 2023, and within the final 9 years its contributions to social works complete RD$8.3 billion to profit 98 establishments, primarily hospitals and foundations devoted to social actions.

The data was supplied by the entity’s ambassador, Frank R. Rainieri on the commemorative cocktail occasion for the Day of Saint John the Baptist, Patron Saint of the Order of Malta, which occurred on the Museum of Fashionable Artwork with the presence of the Minister of Overseas Affairs , Roberto Álvarez; the governor of the Central Financial institution, Héctor Valdez Albizu; the Administrative Minister of the Presidency, José Ignacio Paliza; the secretary basic of the World Tourism Group (UNWTO), Zurab Pololikashvili; the Minister of the Presidency, Joel Santos, amongst different authorities.

The Sovereign Order of Malta is a religious-secular order of the Catholic Church with authorized persona that has a diplomatic mission in additional than 120 international locations and since its basis has carried out medical and humanitarian help tasks in favor of the sick, probably the most needy and probably the most susceptible. susceptible. It has the standing of a Sovereign State, it has been in pressure for nearly 10 centuries and its State and Authorities affairs are directed and supervised by the Grand Grasp.

The quantity of donations distributed by our warehouse in 2022, defined Ambassador Rainieri, amounted to 648 million pesos, benefiting 98 establishments by means of 165 donations. The most important recipients have been Public Well being, the Juan Pablo Pina Basic Regional Hospital in San Cristóbal and the Jesús Te Ama Basis in Santo Domingo Este; and in 2023 we’ve got already acquired 10 vans with medicines, supplies and gear, for a complete worth of roughly 400 million pesos.

Within the final 9 years, the Order of Malta has allotted 140 containers with donations to the Dominican Republic, valued at greater than $8.3 billion pesos in meals, provides and gear which have benefited greater than 300 well being facilities.

Ambassador Rainieri defined that the embassy within the nation in coordination with the Affiliation and the Women Hospitaller is especially devoted to the administration of worldwide help; and the administration, logistics and distribution of donations which might be distributed in additional than 300 facilities, together with hospitals, dispensaries and shelters for youngsters and the aged.

Additionally, he expressed that three well being facilities owned by the Order are operated: Maternal and Little one Clinics and Main Care in Herrera and Monte Plata and Maternal and Little one Clinic in Haina; entities that function beneath the rules and protocols established by the Ministry of Public Well being and the World Well being Group, and obtain greater than 50,000 sufferers from probably the most susceptible sectors of our society.

Ambassador Rainieri revealed that in 2021, within the midst of the covid-19 pandemic, the Diplomatic Mission of the Order, in coordination with the Affiliation of the Order of Malta and the Ministries of Overseas Affairs, Public Well being, Finance and the Basic Directorate of Customs donated 36 monitoring gear to 6 public hospitals with a complete value of US$1.6 million, protecting gear for well being personnel valued at greater than RD$2 million, and a few 9,000 containers of meals have been distributed to individuals in want. .

Within the Dominican Republic, the primary embassy of the Order of Malta was established virtually 50 years in the past, its first ambassador being Francesco Rainieri. In 1994, the Dominican Affiliation of the Order of Malta was established within the nation, a non-profit establishment that works hand in hand with this Diplomatic Mission and is the administrator, operator and channel of donations acquired from its worldwide companions, Meals For The Poor and Americares, in addition to donations acquired instantly from the Order of Malta from completely different international locations.