Nine tonnes of medical equipment destined for Ukraine recently left PhysioNet’s local hub thanks to Saffron Walden Rotary and over twenty-five volunteers.
The forty-feet trailer was loaded to capacity with mobility aids, wheelchairs, beds, paediatric physio equipment as well as other medical equipment that had been collected over recent months by Saffron Walden Rotarians and their friends.
The recently opened hub became full to capacity and with the availability of a lorry returning to Ukraine the opportunity was seized by Rotary project leader Ed Netsel to assemble a group of volunteers to undertake the manual loading operation.
The destination for the Ukrainian volunteer driver was the Sumy Regional Veterans Clinical Hospital. Sumy is a city of regional significance in north-eastern Ukraine, thirty miles from the Russian border, which was recaptured by Ukraine in April 2022