Cork volunteers to provide mobility aids to Ukrainian hospitals

'There is no facility in the HSE by which crutches can be returned and it seems a shame that these perfectly good devices should remain unused. We are sending them to where they are needed.' File picture: Larry Cummins

A pilot project has been set up by volunteers in Cork to provide wheelchairs, walking aids and other medical equipment to Ukrainians injured in Russian attacks on their country.

A team of volunteers is collecting the equipment which will then be shipped out to the Polish Red Cross, which will in turn send it onto Ukrainian hospitals.