Volunteers from Belgium and Ukraine hand over six ambulances to Ukrainian Defense Forces

23 September, 2024 Ambulances donated by volunteers. Photo credits: Suspilne Volunteers from Belgium and Ukraine donated six ambulances to the Ukrainian Defense Forces.

The Suspilne media outlet reported on this. The official handover took place in Lviv, where the Charitable Foundation "Mercy and Health" handed over the cars and other medical equipment. The donations included medicines, medical equipment and specialized first aid kits.

Ambulances donated by volunteers.

Photo credits: Suspilne

This assistance is aimed at strengthening medical support for the military on the front line, which will help to evacuate and provide assistance to the wounded more effectively. "These are extremely important vehicles. First, these are type B ambulances.

The vehicles are equipped with oxygen, an anesthesia machine, defibrillator, suction, and a patient monitor. In other words, these are fully equipped vehicles that can evacuate a patient in a stable condition from the site of injury to a hospital," said Oleksandr Yatsyna, head of the Charity Foundation "Mercy and Health". It should be noted that the Belgian non-governmental charitable organization Befoua took part in the transfer of these vehicles, which is already the 16th charitable mission to Ukraine.

The vehicles are equipped with all the necessary equipment to save lives of Ukrainian soldiers and to carry out prompt evacuation.

Ambulances donated by volunteers. Photo credits: Suspilne

The vehicles will be transferred to the medical unit of the 3rd Assault Brigade in the Pokrovsk sector to stabilization points and to a hospital in Dnipro. Militarnyi previously reported that soldiers of the 4th "Rubizh" Rapid Reaction Brigade of the National Guard of Ukraine had received a STABNET mobile medical stabilization points, which would be used to rescue wounded soldiers.

This is the 9th Stabnet medical stabilization point delivered to the Ukrainian Defense Forces and the first for the National Guard of Ukraine.

A Stabnet mobile stabilization container named Phoenix, which was delivered to the military, is fully equipped with medical equipment.