More medical aid prepared for use in Ukraine

Ukrainian doctor is helping to coordinate medical aid deliveries to his home country.

Dr Roman Cregg, a Ukrainian doctor working at University College London Hospital, is helping to coordinate medical aid deliveries to his home country, Qazet.az reports.

Today his employer donated crates of spare masks, gowns and trauma kits. They will be driven to the Polish border over the next few days as part of a larger consignment, where the Ukrainian authorities will take them on to the city of Lviv and further afield.

“We have to react to the tragic reality which my countrymen are facing,” said Dr Cregg.

“Every single bit of equipment will contribute to us being able to save more people in the hospitals and there is a separate activity to support our troops with first aid kits to help save lives on the battlefield.”

The UK government said it has now flown 300,000 items of medical aid to Poland in three separate shipments (including gloves, sanitiser, wound care packs and resuscitation kits) with more on the way.

Meanwhile the World Health Organization has said a humanitarian corridor must be put in place “as soon as possible” to bring medical aid into areas that have been under direct Russian attack.