Incubators and baby warmers being sent from Ireland to help struggling Ukrainian maternity hospitals

Medical equipment is loaded onto a truck at the JMC Warehouse in Ballybane, Co Dublin, on Monday, where donations of medical equipment, including baby incubators and ventilators from the HSE are being wrapped and sent to Ukraine, to help medical staff there. Picture: Colin Keegan/ Collins

Incubators and baby warmers for premature babies are among the items in the latest shipment of donated medical aid from Ireland to Ukraine as maternity hospitals there struggle to care for women.

“There is a huge demand for those incubators and warmers in those situations where they have to care for newborn babies in bomb-shelters or even in buildings that are safe-ish to be in,” said Dr Kateryna Kachurets, a Ukrainian GP working in Dublin.