WHEN A TRANSPLANT IS NOT ENOUGH

Eshetu Nigatu Hulo is the name of the young Ethiopian man who has undergone a kidney transplant and is being supported by GSI Italia through his difficult and costly post-operative recovery. The cost of anti-rejection therapy involves taking medication that is difficult to obtain in this East African country, as well as regular laboratory tests to monitor the effective doses of the treatment designed to prevent organ rejection.
The ambulances bearing the GSI Italia insignia, donated by the Association to St Paul’s Hospital in Addis Ababa, represent for Ashetu – as they do for the hundreds of other daily emergency cases and admissions to the capital’s major hospital – the very real difference, all too often, between survival and death.
One of the two ambulances made available to GSI Italia for Addis Ababa was provided by the Croce Bianca di Foligno.
An ambulance can make all the difference in a city like Addis Ababa. Two are even better.