Cork volunteers send crutches, wheelchairs, walking canes and frames to Ukraine

The container will be taken to the town of Minsk Mazowiecki, just east of Warsaw, before going to the Ukrainian town of Borodyanka

(Left to right) Noel and Aibhin O'Riordan, Ryan's SuperValu Glanmire, Ger O'Dea, National Ambulance Service Community Engagement Manager, Derek O'Kelly-Lynch, Jenkinson Logistics, Margaret Keohane and Patrica O'Callaghan, both Keohane Pallets, former Senator John Gilroy, Nictor Danylyuk, Ukrainian Community (Shtab Pivdnya), John O'Connell, Project ESPWA, Michael Foley, Aaron Daly, both CS&R, Jim Quinn, Team Gilroy, Chris O'Shea, CS&R and Gary Walsh, CS&R Manager, with a consignment of medical equipment bound for hospitals in the Ukraine, at CS&R Container Storage & Repair, Tivoli Dock, Cork. Picture: Jim Coughlan

A shipment of medical aid organised by a group of Cork volunteers for the victims of the war in Ukraine is to head to Poland, where it will be sent across the border to hospitals trying to rehabilitate soldiers and civilians injured during the Russian onslaught.

It’s expected that more than 1,000 injured people will benefit from the container shipment, which is full of crutches, wheelchairs, walking canes, walking frames, medical support boots and other miscellaneous medical items.