May 29, Lviv, Ukraine – On behalf of the Ukraine Humanitarian Appeal – a joint effort of the Canada-Ukraine Foundation (CUF) and the Ukrainian-Canadian Congress (UCC), Oksana Wynnyckyj-Yusypovych, Honorary Consul at Canadian Consulate in Lviv, Ukraine, officially handed over 10 new Ford Transit Critical Care, Type III, Box Type Ambulances to the National Disaster Relief Department of Ukraine’s Ministry of Health.
“Because of the relentless Russian genocidal attacks on Ukrainian Civilians and Hospitals causing many casualties, we are providing another allocation of Critical Care ambulances to facilitate safe transfer of patients to medical facilities that are still operating.” – Victor Hetmanczuk, Chair of the Canada-Ukraine Foundation.
Ukraine has been defending itself against the genocidal full-scale invasion by the Russian Federation for over two years now. Its civilian infrastructures are continuously bombed resulting in heavy casualties among civilian population. Ambulances with advanced life support capability and room for the medical personnel to provide critical care en route, are needed to reduce mortality rate.
Thanks to the generosity of Canadian donors, Ukraine’s Ministry of Health will now have additional 10 specialized ambulances in several regions across Ukraine to evacuate the injured to safety.
This is not the first time that Canadian-funded ambulances have been sent to Ukraine. The CUF-UCC Ukraine Humanitarian Appeal has previously sent 11 ambulances in February of 2023.
Since the beginning of the full-scale invasion, the Ukraine Humanitarian Appeal has supported the Health Sector of Ukraine with medications, vacuum-assisted closure (VAC) devices, dialysis machines, eye laser, microscope, PPE, labour beds, generators and surgical missions. To read about our projects, please follow the link.
Background
The Ukraine Humanitarian Appeal has been established jointly by the Ukrainian Canadian Congress (UCC) and the Canada Ukraine Foundation (CUF) to formalize a coordinated approach in providing humanitarian assistance quickly and efficiently to those in need in Ukraine to address any further aggression by Russia. The main efforts of cooperation are to provide humanitarian assistance/relief in the areas of assistance to displaced persons, medical care, emergency shelter and food security.