After almost two hours of exciting virtual training with donor company Hadler&Braun Medizintechnik, two translators and the intensive care team at Hospital No. 25 in Kharkiv, the new blood gas analyzer device is now up and running.
An important part of our ccoperation with medical colleagues in Ukraine is the constant re-evaluation and testing of medical supplies we use. These tests are particularly important when original products are tested against derivatives.
The war in Ukraine has become even more brutal during president Trump's ‘peace negotiations’. The front is moving even closer to already hard-hit Kharkiv city.
In a joint project with our partners from TvoryDobro, who, as Berliners with Ukrainian roots, have been doing admirable work in those past three years, this time we are providing these pneumatic gloves to a rehabilitation centre in Ukraine.
Despite the recent start of talks on a ceasefire in Ukraine, hundreds of people continue to be injured or killed every day as a result of the fighting. The high number of complicated bone fractures places a particular burden on hospitals and rescue services.
During my current visit to Ukraine, I was able see the progress of a cooperation project with my own eyes:
While the military situation just a few kilometres from these colleagues' clinic is becoming increasingly dramatic, they are trying day after day to save as many lives and preserve as much health as they can.
We are receiving photo messages and greetings from people all over Ukraine on a daily basis now, to whom our local partners have been able to deliver winter sleeping bags current campaign stocks.
Urgently needed: surgical instruments for Ukraine!
If I'm posting relatively little at the moment, it's not because there's nothing going on, but because the winter relief campaign has gripped me entirely. Thank you for sticking with me!