The Johanniter
Hódmezővásárhely

Details:

Address: 6800 Hódmezővásárhely, Malom utca 30.

Tel/Fax: +36-62-346-718

E- mail: postmaster@medber.axelero.net

Year of Organization: 1993

Members of the Local Group:

dr. Kószó Pál

retired town associate professor,

founder

dr. Kószó Péter

pediatrist, vice mayor of Hódmezővásárhely, a town with county rights,

president

dr. Bálint Péter

hospital pediatrist, hospital associate professor, honorary knight of the Order of St. John

vice-president

Kocsis Tamás

reformed pastor,

spiritual leader

dr. Berényi Károly

pediatrist

medical advisor

PR manager

Tóth Bálint

depot supervisor,

charity coordinator

dr. Grezsa István

civil physician,

President of Medical Committee, local government

organizer

Balázs László

street warden

church organ player

driver

Széll Kálmán

social worker

driver

dr. Mayer Klára, physician,

Wetzer Ferenc, EMT nurse,

Földesi Imre, EMT officer,

Dezső Péter, EMT officer

Partner Organization in Germany:

Johanniter Unfall-Hilfe Lauf a.d., Pegnitz (Lorand Szüszner, Horst Bertram, Brigitte Bertram); from Oberzenn: Gerhard Zahner

Activity of the Group:

I. In Hungary:

1. In-kind aid of people in social need,

2. Ad hoc patient transport with charity purposes,

3. Supporting medical and social institutions and civil organizations with tools and equipment (e.g. donating 100 hospital beds to the Rheumatology Institute in Kakasszék, etc.),

4. Participation in homeless aid and supporting the social care system of Hódmezővásárhely (e.g. financial support of the Mother-and-Child Shelter and of the Day-Care Center for the Mentally Disabled),

5. Participation in local Christmas donation (homeless food distribution, supporting large families, etc.),

6. Church support,

7. Participation in natural disaster relief (e.g. 9 sorties in the 2001 Bereg flood),

8. Prison ministry support (e.g. Nagyfa),

9. Assistance of medical prevention (e.g. Lufi Asthma Club - dr. Berényi Károly; drug prevention - dr. Grezsa István; mental hygiene - dr. Grezsa Ferenc),

10. Medical security at large-scale programs (e.g. reburial of Vitéz Nagybányai Horthy Miklós, 1993, National Meeting of the Disabled – Lakitelek, 2002),

II. Out-of-borders

1. Participation in the medical assistance of war-struck regions of the Johanniter Unfall-Hilfe (dr. Kószó Péter: War in Yugoslavia, refugee camp in Tetovo: children medical assistance, April 1999),

2. Catastrophe assistance at the time of the Tisza flood in Kárpátalja (4 missions to Mezővári, 1998),

3. Regular support of the regions in Erdély where Hungarians live (building a school dentist examination room in Szentegyháza and a youth hostel in Bereck),

4. Regular transportation of the sick from Kispereg, Romania to medical check-ups (assistance to the Siamese twins separated in Szeged),

5. Regular aid for Zenta, a town in Delvidek, Serbia (as an acknowledgement, the Johanniter in Hódmezővásárhely received an honor “For The Town of Zenta” from the Bacska town mayor in 2000),

6. Participation in a Johanniter training in Germany (Nürnberg, 2001: dr. Berényi Károly and Széll Kálmán).