PEOPLE IN TEHRIR SQUARE, CAIRO ARE IN DIRE NEED

[Bilal Mahmud المكافح المخلص]

PEOPLE IN TEHRIR SQUARE, CAIRO ARE IN DIRE NEED OF IMMEDIATE MEDICAL SUPPORT, BLOOD

 DONATIONS AND SUPPLIES:
Please forward to friends, family and advocates in Egypt. Get word out to all those who have access to supplies and can help donate, distribute or deliver supplies. If you are in Egypt, please consider helping.
 
As of Thursday Feb 3^rd morning, five people have died and volunteer doctors are running out of medical supplies to tend to the hundreds of wounded.  We are coordinating efforts to get supplies to doctors in field hospitals and centers.
 
MEDICAL SUPPLIES NEEDED: cotton, dressings, betadine, suture kits, analgesics, to handle the wounded in field.
These supplies need to be delivered to Tehrir Square, to the makeshift hospital behind Hardees in the square. This is on the side that is protected by the military and so it should be safe to deliver items.
 
BLOOD DONATIONS NEEDED:
The following are hospitals are have blood banks that are asking for immediate donations:

·         Blood needed at Kasr El Aini urgently. Call: Tel: [phone]

·         El Nozha Tel : [phone]

·         Ain Shams

·         El Zeraeen (n Dokki): 33375579 – 33377670

·         Swiss blood bank in Dokki: 37620202 – 37613117

·         Kasr El Ainy

·         Shabrawishy: 33384684 – 37604341

·         Wadie El Nile

 
FOOD AND WATER:
Requests have been made for food and water for people in Tahreer Square. Please take food/water to distribute to others.
 
PERSONAL ACCOUNT FROM A DOCTOR IN TAHREER SQUARE:
“Tired of the six nights I spent in Tahreer, all the gas bombs that was thrown at me, the fear of being shot by police thugs, the anxiety that is about to kill me, & believes all could've sent me home. If it weren't for the blood of the finest youth of Egypt that covered my hands last Friday, those who died in front of my eyes while I stood helpless bandaging their live bullet wounds with kleenex and plastic bags' shreds.”
 
TO COORDINATE SUPPLIES:
In EGYPT: Dr. Amany Sadek from Mostashfa el Maydany (at a field office in Tehrir square) at Phone: [phone].  
If outside Egypt: Please email [e-mail] or [e-mail] and we will coordinate.
 
Please forward to everyone you know who may be able to help!!!!

Thank you!