Direct Relief is tracking multiple responses across the globe and will continue to respond. Since February 24, Direct Relief has provided medical aid to Ukraine weighing more than 1.9 million pounds, or 950 tons, with more on the way. 11 tons of medical aid departed Direct Relief’s warehouse to northeastern and western Ukrainian cities. The shipments include specifically requested items, such as field medic packs for triage care, cancer medications, antibiotics, cardiovascular medications, vitamins, insulin syringes and needles, and PPE.
Direct Relief staff was in Slovakia with Fire Medical, an ambulatory services non-profit located in Gabčíkovo that acts as an outpatient clinic and operates hospital transportation services free of charge for Ukrainian refugees.
As they take patients to hospitals each day, the nonprofit logs about 3,728 miles per week in their ambulance. Direct Relief provided the group with a $300,000 grant earlier this year for operating costs and the purchase of medicine, which they must buy privately as government support is unavailable.
In the four weeks since the storm, more than 247 emergency shipments were sent to Florida, valued at $2.8 million to 80 recipients, and requests for medical aid have departed Direct Relief’s warehouse for health facilities recovering from the storm at a rapid pace.
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