Cork group asked to help with hospital for injured Ukrainians after delivering medical aid

When in Minsk Mazoweiecki, former Senator John Gilroy met Ukrainian refugees who shared harrowing accounts of their experiences of the war

Jim Quinn, Team Gilroy, John O'Connell, Project ESPWA and Ger O'Dea, National Ambulance Service Community Engagement Manager, with the consignment recently of medical equipment bound for hospitals in the Ukraine. Picture: Jim Coughlan.

A Cork-based voluntary group has been asked by the authorities in Ukraine to help set up a rehabilitation hospital near the capital Kyiv to treat those injured during the Russian invasion.

As a result, Crutches4Ukraine is to extend its campaign to collect mobility aids across all of Cork and will seek local partners to assist in the logistics of this major initiative.