More aid coming after Gerdec tragedy

TIRANA, April 7 – NOTTS Police Aid Convoys are preparing five lorries to take aid to a hospital in Tirana where casualties of the Gerdec explosion have been taken.
The Notts Police charity have been delivering aid to the hospital for the last five years.
David Scott, charity chairman, describes the hospital as being seriously overstretched and generally inadequate.
Emergency aid has been provided by NATO bases in Italy, Greece and Turkey, though the recent wave of casualties is likely to have a lasting impact on the hospital for years to come.
Five airmen from Stratton Air National Guard Base joined three New Jersey National Guard members on a humanitarian mission to administer Hepatitis A vaccines to 1,000 children in February in Albania.
Through New Jersey’s State Partnership Agreement Program with Albania, the National Guard agreed to send three Army medics and the Airmen of the 109th Airlift Wing to Albania for about one week.
“This is an excellent opportunity for both the 109th Medical and Dental Group and the 139th Aeromedical Evacuation Squadron to work together and do what we do best,” said Master Sgt. Jim Welsh, one of the medics who participated in the mission.