What we stand for
ROBINAID is a medical expert organization based in Hamburg / Germany that works to improve cardiac and emergency critical care medicine and nursing in disadvantaged and less developed parts of our world. Since 2015, our activities have focused primarily on the African continent, specifically on Southern Egypt and Cameroon in Central Africa. Another project in Rwanda (East Africa) is currently under construction, and we are preparing to launch further engagements in Ghana and Kenya (West and East Africa).
Our commitment pursues three main objectives: unrestricted and free access to critical care for all, scientifically approved and accredited training structures to expand the knowledge and skills of the required staff, and a reliable supply of medical goods essential for practicing critical care. After centuries of exploitation and oppression by the Western world, it is time for the people of Africa to become strong and gain the freedom to meet their own needs without paternalism and a degrading supplicant mentality.
Our partners
As we are active in two highly complex medical fields, we always work with complementary organizations and institutions based on identical goals, compatible ways of proceeding, and shared ethical values.
In the field of Cardiac Critical Care, we are closely connected with the Aswan Heart Centre in Southern Egypt, which is operated by the renowned Magdi Yacoub Heart Foundation. This outstanding hospital serves as our guiding concept and common training centre for expanding high-quality cardiac services to Sub-Saharan African countries. In Cameroon, we are working with the Heart of Cameroon Foundation to set up a similar project. It follows the same spirit and represents the first step toward realizing our vision of the MY African Cardiac & Critical Care Network.
In the field of Emergency Critical Care, we are partnered with the Essential Health For All Foundation Foumbot in the West Region of Cameroon. At their Essential Health Higher Institute, we are establishing the “Faculty in Interprofessional Emergency Critical Care” in order to increase the number of well-trained and academically certified specialists across the entire spectrum of anesthesia, emergency and critical care services. In various hospitals of the Cameroon Baptist Convention Health Services, we promote setting up of state-of-the-art, highly standardized emergency critical care units.
“The right to be healed and to live a life of opportunity and dignity is a fundamental and inalienable right of every member of the human community.”
Dr. med. Matthias Angrés
“Medicine must serve humanity and that means reaching those who need it most, not just those who can afford it.”
Prof. Sir Magdi Yacoub
Our background
ROBINAID was founded in 2009 as an independent non-profit foundation by a group of committed doctors, nurses and a pharmacist under the leadership of anaesthetist and intensive care specialist Dr. Matthias Angrés.
Before devoting himself entirely to humanitarian medicine, he was Medical Director of the Hamburg Albertinen Hospital, academic teaching hospital of the University Medical Center Hamburg-Eppendorf. During this time, he and colleagues from the Albertinen Cardiac Centre organized the “Hamburg-Kabul-Airlift”, which brought seriously ill or injured children from all over Afghanistan to Hamburg and hospitals throughout Germany for life-saving and complex treatment as part of the Albertinen Foundation’s “Heart Bridge” project.
In 2017, our founder was honored with the Order of Merit of the Federal Republic of Germany and in 2019 the Bremen Children’s Oscar was given to him for his outstanding humanitarian commitment to disadvantaged children in parts of the world characterized by poverty, crises, and violence.
