Ukraine Solidarity Campaign
The Free Trade Union of Medical Workers of Ukraine is appealing to the trade union movement for urgent aid.
Free Trade Union of Medical Workers of Ukraine – VPMPU are appealing for aid for a hospital in a mining region of Western Ukraine which is facing the severe challenges of the Russian invasion.
The Ukrainian health service was under-resourced before the invasion, staff underpaid, and hospitals starved of necessary investment. Whilst at the same time the Medical Workers Union has been campaigning to defend the health system against cutting, neoliberal reforms.
Now the pressures on this hospital have increased, there are thousands of internally displaced persons in the city, a large influx of patients, over half of the patients are casualties of the war who need rehabilitation.
Many of these casualties were themselves mineworkers and members of Independent Trade Union of Mineworkers
Ukrainians are paying a heavy price to free their country; the Ukraine Solidarity Campaign appealing for your assistance with this humanitarian aid for the rehabilitation and care of seriously ill casualties of the war.
We publish below the equipment were looking to obtain and will deliver to the hospital in Ukraine. There are two ways you can assist:
By raising in the Hospital, Trust, or Medical Centre where you work or in your area if they will donate this equipment which we will deliver.
You can donate directly to our medical appeal Crowdfunder which we will use to obtain equipment and transport it to Ukraine. Medical Workers Appeal
- You can contact our campaign directly for further information on the appeal to assist in seeking aid: info@ukrainesolidaritycampaign.org
This appeal is being launched by donation from striking health workers in Bristol, of the GMB union No.8 branch:
List of necessary equipment the Medical Workers Union of Ukraine are seeking
- Rehabilitation treadmill (INSPORTLINE NEBLIN)
- Wooden bars with obstacles
- Trainer for restoring walking skills
- System of continuous passive movement of joints
- ankle
- foot
- elbow
- radiocarpal
- Ceiling lift
- Trainer “Air walk”
- MOTOmed
- Strength trainer for different muscle groups
- Rehabilitation cage
- Mechanical simulators for hands and feet
- Dynamic verticalizer
- Rehabilitation stairs
- Orbitrek
- Step platform with height adjustment
- Rubber balls of different diameters from 3 to 30 cm.
- Gymnastic sticks of different hardness and length
- Finger rehabilitation simulator
- Trainers, ring shaped expanders and with handles
- Mats, gymnastic mats
- Adaptive devices for dressing up and putting shoes on
- Dumbbells 0.5; 1; 2; 3; 4; and 5 kg.
- Breathing simulator
- Couch 2 x 2 m. and 2 x 2.5 m.
- Balancing pillows and platforms, balancing disc
- Weights 0.5; 1; 1.5; 2; 3; 4; and 5 kg.
- Spirometer, dynamometer
- Rehabilitation stool on wheels
- Poles for Nordic walking
- Steppers
- External fixation devices for bone fractures
- Arthroscopic méniscal biters
- Kirschner Wire Cutter
- Electrocoagulator
- Ophthalmic tonometer iCare IC100
- Straight ophthalmoscope
- A set of test spectacle lenses
- Interacoustics MT10 impedance audiometer
- Parient lift for the seriously ill
- Electromyograph
- Portable ultrasound device
- Operating ceiling lamp
- Device for non-invasive lung ventilation SIPAP Infant Flow
- Pulse oximeters
- Audiometer for newborns
- Patient heating system on the operating table
- Surgical instruments (clamps, dissectors, scissors, needle holders, tweezers, abdominal and thoracic wound expanders)
- Laparoscopic trocars #6, #10, #12
- Laparoscopic instruments (dissector, scissors, needle holders, clamps)
- Distractor
- Portable and celling LED lamp
- X-ray transparent hydromechanical operating table
- 12-channel ECG
- Functional beds
- Bedside tables for bedridden patients
- A trolley for distributing food to patients in the wards
- Bedside chairs-toilets
- Monitors for monitoring the heart and respiratory systems of patients
- Computer, monitor, laptop, printer, scanner for the trade union office
15a. Bean-shaped ball, 15v. Fitballs with a diameter of 55, 65, 75 cm.