E-DRUG: Drug donations to Turkey (cont)
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I was Temporary Duty Assignment to USAID/Office of Foreign Disaster
Assistance (OFDA) during the first week of the Turkey earthquake. I
received numerous calls from different groups that wanted OFDA to transport
medical supplies, but the reports we had received from the actual sites in
Turkey told us that the medications were not needed, so we respectfully told
these groups that what they wanted to send at this time was not requested or
needed in Turkey.
I am not sure if these organizations then tried another way to get their
supplies to Turkey or not, but a least OFDA was trying to be prudent about
not burdening Turkey with supplies not needed.
Bill Boyce, RPh, FASHP
Oregon State University
College of Pharmacy
Corvallis, Oregon
bill.boyce@orst.edu
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