Berlin has become the main German arrival point for refugees from Ukraine. Since March 9, the Adventist-run Waldfriede Hospital in Berlin-Zehlendorf has taken in Ukrainian refugees and is helping them take their first steps in Germany.
As the hospital announced, in addition, on the past two weekends, collected donations in kind and relief supplies (medicines, anesthesia equipment, baby food, water, and much more) were brought by employees to the Ukrainian border in a transport vehicle. On the way back, they took more refugees (an extended family) with them (see photo above). Bernd Quoß, a board member of the hospital, had organized accommodation together with the nursing director, Maria Gössler.
Support association and hospital work together
Sponsors of Waldfriede Hospital have been supporting social projects in Berlin, Germany, and around the world for many years. Currently, the hospital and the support association are doing their best to provide emergency aid for Ukraine and to raise relief supplies and donations to help the victims, and donations to provide the local people and the refugees in Berlin with the most basic necessities.
Signs of solidarity and prayers for peace
Waldfriede Hospital also shows its solidarity with Ukraine through symbolic gestures. For example, the blue and yellow Ukrainian flag was hoisted at the hospital and the building was illuminated at night in Ukraine's national colors. In addition, the hospital's chaplains offer twice-weekly peace prayers for all those who care about peace and those who stand in solidarity with those in need.
Waldfriede Hospital
Waldfriede Hospital in Berlin-Zehlendorf is an academic teaching hospital of the Charité-Universitätsmedizin Berlin. It has been certified several times according to statutory quality parameters and has already received numerous awards for its medical and nursing quality. Approximately 15,000 inpatients and 120,000 outpatients are treated here each year. The sponsor is the Seventh-day Adventist Church, which maintains around 900 medical facilities worldwide. Waldfriede is, among other things, a cooperation partner of the Adventist hospital network, Advent Health, in the USA.
The hospital is part of the Waldfriede Health Network, which also includes a day clinic, a social station, an academy for health and nursing care, a service company, a senior citizens' home, the PrimaVita health center, the Nikolassee private clinic, and the Desert Flower Center.
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