The Hungarian government has recognized that the situation in the Central African region affects the future of Europe as a whole, therefore everything must be done to avoid a humanitarian disaster in Chad, the Secretary of State at the Ministry of Foreign Affairs and Trade, responsible for programs to help persecuted Christians, stated.
Reporting from the African country, Azbej Tristan said that he had joined a humanitarian mission, the Hungary Helps program’s medical mission in Chad, with doctors, health professionals, humanitarian operations managers, and agricultural experts looking for ways to help the people there and contribute to the country’s stability.
The Secretary of State said that armed conflicts are a daily occurrence in Chad’s neighboring countries, civil war is raging in Sudan, and a military coup in Nigeria has made the situation precarious.
People are migrating to Chad for their own safety and that of their families, because it is the last stable country in the region, he said, adding that they face healthcare problems in Chad, where infant mortality rates are 22 times higher than in Europe. He stressed that a third of the people there are in need of immediate humanitarian assistance.
Members of the Hungarian medical mission are providing them with assistance and medical care, while also looking to help the host communities,
the Hungarian Minister of State wrote on his social media page.
In the video published on his page, Azbej said that humanitarian operations managers are training local authorities’ professionals, who are trying to care for more than one million refugees. Moreover, Hungarian agricultural experts are looking at how our agricultural and irrigation technology expertise can be put to good use in a country stricken by desertification where there is a severe food crisis and almost half of the children are malnourished.
The state secretary pointed out that
if a humanitarian disaster were to occur in Chad, it could trigger a flood of refugees into Europe and Hungary.
He said that members of the mission had come to Chad because Hungary recognized the situation and was looking for ways to contribute to stability and to prevent the humanitarian crisis from escalating into a disaster and to set the country on a path towards development. Azbej Tristan’s mission is in line with the Hungarian government’s central thesis, namely that crises in less developed parts of the world cannot be solved by migrations, but by bringing help to the very regions affected.
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Via MTI, Featured image: Facebook/Azbej Tristan
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