MIAMI-DADE COUNTY, Fla. — Physicians with the Venezuelan American Medical Association asked the public on Saturday to drop off donations of medical supplies at a warehouse in northwestern Miami-Dade County.

The physicians who have been treating earthquake survivors in Venezuela were in dire need of medical devices such as splints, cervical neck braces, triangular bandages for slings, and plaster bandages.

They needed sterile gauze pads, tourniquets, medical tape, adhesive bandages, hemostatic dressings, broad-spectrum antibiotic ointment, and non-latex examination gloves.

“We are also receiving broad-spectrum antibiotics,” Dr. Pedro Fuenmayor, a plastic surgeon based in Miami-Dade County, said in Spanish, according to a video that the organization released on Instagram.

The group also asked for broad-spectrum antibiotic ointment, analgesics, oral rehydration solutions, antihistamines, anti-diarrhea medication, and other medications with intact tamper-evident seals.

“It is very important that the medicines be sealed and not expired,“ Dr. Zoe Pujadas said in Spanish.

Dr. Jesus Guarecuco said the donations will be delivered to Valencia, Venezuela, to be distributed by nonprofits Caritas Venezuela and Médicos Unidos Venezuela to areas where physicians are treating the injured.

“All of this is being sent by air,” Guarecuco said in Spanish.

Dr. Leadro Feo and Guarecuco said most nonprofit organizations, have limits on what medical supplies they are able to accept and deliver to Venezuela.

“Everything that is for children goes to the Global Empowerment Mission, everything that is a medical supply comes here,“ said Feo, a surgical oncologist, about the drop-off location at the warehouse.

The physicians’ drop-off location is open from 9 a.m. to 5 p.m., from Monday to Friday, and from 10 a.m. to 4 p.m. on Saturday at the warehouse at 8080 NW 71 St., just south of Medley and north of Doral.

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