The David McAntony Gibson Foundation (DMGF) is a registered Canadian charity that runs capacity building missions in developing countries and provides disaster relief services to complex emergencies and natural disasters around the world. DMGF is using its operational arm, Global Medic to respond to the Crisis in the Middle East.
Global Medic has implemented a 2 part response plan
Phase 1-
Global Medic will donate essential medicines and water purification tablets to help the people of Lebanon. These donated items include desperately needed essential medicines, broad spectrum antibiotics, emergency medicines, and water purification tablets. They meet the items requested by Lebanese government officials. So far over two million medications will be donated. More donations of medicines are being pledged and a firm number will be provided in a few days. These medications have been donated from the Universal Healthcare Trust and pharmaceuticals firms included GlaxoSmithKline and Cipla.
Phase 2-
Global Medic has placed its Rapid Response Team (RRT) on alert. The proposed RRT deployment calls for 2 field hospital units to be operational and mobile in different regions in Southern Lebanon. They will be manned by our team and eventually turned over to MAG staff to continue the work. The water team will carry 1 Nomad and 3 Trekker Systems. The Nomad will be set up in a central region to fill bladder tanks and distribute clean water while the Trekkers will be sent to large camps, hospitals, or used in mobile units to deliver water to cut off areas. The donated medicines can treat over 100,000 patients. The water units will churn out enough drinking water to provide over 75,000 civilians with water daily until local authorities can restore the water supply. The equipment will be donated so that it can be used again should a future crisis situation occur.
The team is staffed by volunteer rescuers including paramedics, police officers, and firefighters.