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The new department heads (from left) Christian Gürster, Flora Deak and Dominik Angerer want to get doctors interested in navigation systems.
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Flora Deak, Dominik Angerer and Christian Gürster now head the medical department at the aid organization Navis.
They explain why they are involved with Navis.
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– “We can bring in a breath of fresh air with new ideas”: Flora Deak, Dominik Angerer and Christian Gürster have taken on responsibility at the aid organization Navis eV.
The two doctors from Ismaning and the paramedic from the Deggendorf district now head the medical department.
They have already organized an initial training course and have now met with helpers to take inventory.
Opening every single box, looking through the contents, recording them electronically, adding what is missing, preparing everything optimally for use - a lot of work on a long weekend in the new accommodation in Zieglberg.
Flora Deak is 29 years old, an assistant doctor at the Rechts der Isar Clinic, and is currently specializing in anesthesia.
She comes from Deggendorf and worked there in the emergency services before studying medicine.
That's where she met Christian Gürster, who got her excited about navigation systems.
In 2016, Flora Deak became a member of the aid organization and found it nice to be able to get involved.
“There was and is a lot for me to learn,” she says about her first foreign assignment, which took her to Mozambique with Navis in 2019.
She was still a student at the time and was not used to working with patients, especially since communication with the locals could only take place through interpreters.
It was a big challenge, she remembers, to find herself in the midst of poverty and to adapt to cultural circumstances.
But she felt like she was in great hands in a great team.
Get involved instead of just being there
Flora Deak is involved in the department management because she thinks it is important to do more than “just” fly on missions.
After the long “idle time” caused by the pandemic, she says her goal is to bring a breath of fresh air into the club through new ideas.
The medical team wants to work on training and attract new people who want to be involved.
It is just as important to keep “old hands” on the ball.
“The exchange between missions is important,” emphasizes the 29-year-old, who also advocates for a clear demarcation against disaster tourism.
Is there still time for hobbies?
“That has become significantly less,” she says with a smile, but she enjoys singing, even in the choir.
Cycling, running, swimming, going to the mountains – for Deak, sport means switching off and enjoying free time.
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Dominik Angerer, 35, specializing in anesthesia, is also an assistant doctor on the Isar.
The Munich native lives with his partner Flora in Ismaning and lists navigation systems, cycling, diving and mountaineering as his hobbies.
“I really enjoy going on vacation,” he says with a grin.
The fact that he puts Navis first in the list actually says everything about his motivation.
In 2010 he was deployed abroad for the first time, helping the victims of the flood disaster in Pakistan, but at that time he was still working with a different aid organization.
Then Flora took him to a Navis summer party - and he was done for.
“A cool club, well positioned in medicine and technology” is what excited him from the start.
“I think the spirit is very nice, this hands-on mentality, the tackling and the fact that if it happens, then it’s done.”
Just spontaneously to Kenya
Dominik Angerer is a “blue light worker”, a member of the volunteer fire department.
He likes the atmosphere at Navis, the great environment with great equipment and a lot of experience.
“The team is in the foreground,” he also noticed during the inventory.
This work serves both to get to know each other and to increase commitment: “After moving to the new accommodation, everyone has to know what we have and where it is.”
Gürster is a jack of all trades, because the 49-year-old paramedic at the BRK Deggendorf is also the fire brigade commander in his home community of Hirschberg.
A stroke of luck for Navis, because he is familiar with both specialist areas, medicine and technology.
He has been involved with the aid organization since 2011 and describes his joining as a “random coincidence”: When he was driving to an operation, the emergency doctor asked him what he was planning to do next week.
“Come with me to Africa,” it was said; Navis was helping the victims of a drought disaster in Kenya.
Gürster was immediately hooked and got the green light from his boss and the family.
His parents and siblings looked after him on the farm, and his wife said: “Go, that's what you've always wanted to do!” He actually set out, helped with the dismantling in a team of six, and found his first aid mission an adventure.
“I had good teachers,” he also emphasizes the team spirit.
Everyone pulls together
“It's fun, keep going,” he said to himself after Kenya, completed further training and “worked his way up” at Navis.
The fact that he is now a member of the department management fills him with pride: “We all have the same drive, we all work the same way and that’s the beauty.
It's a togetherness.” Corona has destroyed a lot of society, regrets Christian Gürster.
Many clubs have either “died” or are finding it difficult to continue where they were before the pandemic.
It is all the more important that Navis now reposition itself.
His credo: “We all have to pull together to become even better.”
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