BELGIANS CAMPAIGN FOR MEDICAL AID TO VIETNAMESE
BRUSSELS, Aug. 16 -- A campaign has been launched here to send medical supplies and blood donations to the Vietnamese freedom fighters. To organize the campaign, a "Committee for Medical and Hospital Supplies to Vietnam" was set up. It immediately received the backing of six university professors and more than one hundred physicians; and they issued the following appeal:
"In face of the suffering of the people of Vietnam, who have been fighting for more than twenty years for national independence and the right to self-determination against foreign occupiers;
"In face of the bombing carried out by U.S. planes, the aggression and full-scale use of repression by every means against a people fighting for independence;
‘As men and as doctors, we cannot remain indifferent.
"The doctors who have signed this appeal feel that solidarity must be shown and that something must be done in particular in the field of medical and hospital supplies. They have therefore decided to organize the sending of such supplies through all appropriate means.
"They launch an appeal to the population, particularly the working class, social and trade-union movements and organizations in order to arouse a vast movement of solidarity throughout the country and in order to equip a surgical and hospital unit.
The supplies will be sent to the north Vietnam Red Cross for
transmission to the Red Cross organization of the National Front for Liberation in south Vietnam.
Organization of the movement is in the pattern successfully used in Belgium to gather medical and hospital supplies for the freedom fighters in Algeria. One of the achievements of that committee was three planeloads of antibiotics for the Algerians.
There has been a most encouraging response to the appeal for help to the Vietnamese fighters, New signatures to the appeal are coming in every day.
The secretary of the new committee is Jean Godin, who served as secretary for the committee for aid to Algeria. His address is 14 Avenue Beau Vallon, Waterloo, Brussels, Belgium.
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