Brazil sends 16.8 additional tons of donations to Lebanon

In an important international humanitarian effort, the Government of Brazil has decided to intensify its support for the Lebanese population affected by the conflict in the region. Through Operation Cedar Roots, led by the Federal Government of Brazil, several tons of humanitarian aid have already been sent. The shipments consist of food, medicine and other essential supplies for survival in times of crisis.

This operation is organized in response to the urgent need for aid in Lebanon and has allowed for a total of seven shipments of donations that are reaching the most affected areas.

Operation Cedar Roots combines the repatriation of citizens with the shipment of vital supplies to Lebanon

Operation Cedro Roots, developed in collaboration with the Ministry of Health and the Brazilian Air Force (also known as FAB), has also facilitated the repatriation of Brazilians and their family members residing in the conflict region.

To date, eight rescue flights have been carried out to transport Brazilian citizens and family members, allowing many people to escape the conflict zone and return to their home country safely.

Brazilian authorities have taken advantage of these rescue flights to transport food, medicine and essential medical supplies to the population still affected by the conflict in Lebanon.

In the most recent mission of the operation, the FAB KC-30 aircraft took off at 3:20 p.m. on Saturday, October 26, on its ninth repatriation mission. This flight included a load of 16.8 tons of humanitarian aid, of which 9.5 tons were medicines.

Among them were 400,000 vials of midazolam, an essential medication for pre-surgical sedation and for orotracheal intubation procedures, used mainly in emergency and intensive care situations. This supply was donated by the Brazilian Ministry of Health, which has been working in coordination with the Lebanese authorities to identify and address the most urgent needs of hospitals in Lebanon.

In addition to medicines, this shipment included basic baskets and other medicines collected in collaboration with the Embassy of Lebanon in Brazil, the Consulate General of Lebanon in São Paulo and the United Association for Lebanon (UpL), as well as the Consulate General of Lebanon in Rio de Janeiro. All of these institutions have worked together in a donation collection campaign, channeling the aid provided by both Brazilian citizens and various pharmaceutical companies from the Latin American country that have joined this humanitarian initiative.

Japanese planes heading for possible evacuation mission in Lebanon

As already mentioned, Operation Cedro Roots not only covers the delivery of food and medicine, but also other medical supplies, such as disposable syringes and rehydration sachets, essential in these contexts of humanitarian crisis.

The products have been sent from the public inventories of Brazil’s Unified Health System (SUS), managed by the Ministry of Health. The international cooperation of the Latin American country is carried out in a planned and organized manner, ensuring that donations do not affect the internal supply of these inputs in Brazil, thanks to a prior technical analysis. This process guarantees that the resources allocated to humanitarian aid do not compromise the supply of medicines and essential supplies in Brazilian territory.