Med Surg Support is a family endowment fund created by Marie-Cécile Blanchet and Olivier Beatrix, both digestive surgeons in Lyon. Their four children, Constance, Victoire, Guillemette, and Grégoire, are also actively involved in this humanitarian commitment.

This endowment fund has its roots in the precious heritage left by Marie-Cécile’s parents:

• Claude Blanchet, her father who passed away in 2002, was an insatiable entrepreneur, creative and visionary, whose generosity incessantly led him to dedicate himself to the common cause.
• Bernadette Blanchet, her mother, has always provided unwavering support to her husband and children. Inspired by their values of humanity and altruism, Marie-Cécile Blanchet and Olivier Beatrix have launched this fund with the aim of promoting health and well-being through the sharing of experience and material support all over the world.

The education received by these two surgeons and their professions have always oriented them towards the desire to help others. Thanks to the experience and technical skills acquired over the years, they are fulfilling a long-held dream through the creation of the Med Surg Support fund: to modernize hospitals in underprivileged areas and to improve the health of the most vulnerable communities, particularly in Africa.