Pharmacies in Action for Post-Soviet Jewry's Adopt-a-Bubbe communities:
APSJ
stocks free pharmacies in many smaller cities for pensioners and others who
need western medicines. A local
physician oversees this program and conducts free clinics. In
communities without medical sophistication, only over-the-counter medicines
and vitamins are provided.
Medicine from
Action for Post-Soviet Jewry is also distributed to a free clinic at
a synagogue in Kharkov, Ukraine.
Medicine is distributed through physicians and
coordinators to 20 cities and a number of small
villages in Ukraine. Action for Post-Soviet Jewry distributes
medicine to physicians in Jewish communities in Ukraine for distribution
through our Adopt a Bubbe (or Zayde) program. Medicine is also
distributed to the Jewish community of Minsk, Belarus, through our
coordinators there.
Nizhny Novgorod Program - Action for Post-Soviet
Jewry supplies medicine and medical supplies to a Jewish cardiologist who
heads her department at Cardiology Hospital #1 in Nizhny Novgorod, Russia.
We depend upon donations of sample medicines from
physicians, which are then re-packed and shipped to Ukraine. Medicine
has also been donated by Americares, a non-profit organization which supplies
medicine to countries in need. Generic medicines and vitamins are also
purchased as funds allow.