Support Bundle For Odesa Consists of Tactical Vests, ICU Ventilators, Bandages, and
Wound Care Provides
Cargo Follows Governor’s Teleconference Final Month With Odesa Mayor

ANNAPOLIS, MD—Governor Larry Hogan at present introduced the cargo of a multimillion greenback assist package deal, together with medical provides and physique armor, to assist the folks of Odesa, Ukraine—a sister metropolis of Baltimore. The Maryland Division of Well being (MDH) is donating greater than 485,000 bandages and wound care provides, 95 Eternity mechanical ventilators for hospital intensive care items, and 50 Astral moveable ventilators. The help package deal additionally contains practically 200 items of physique armor, consisting of tactical vests and shields, which have been donated by the Maryland State Police.

The governor made the announcement at an MDH warehouse facility in Hanover, joined by Yaroslav Brisiuck, Deputy Chief of Mission for the Embassy of Ukraine; Karina Mandell, chair of the Baltimore-Odesa Sister Metropolis Committee; Dr. William Chester of the Paul Chester Kids’s Hope Basis; and Maryna Baydyuk and Boris Levonenko of United Assist Ukraine.

“The atrocities going down in Ukraine have served as a reminder to all of us of precisely why robust ties and alliances are so vital, and why it’s so essential that we do no matter we are able to to assist our allies of their time of want,” stated Governor Hogan. “I wish to thank our complete state authorities group for working across the clock over the previous week to make this doable, together with the Baltimore-Odesa Sister Metropolis Committee, which has been indispensable in serving to us coordinate efforts on the bottom.”

(Watch the governor’s remarks.)

Further medical provides have been donated to the Paul Chester Kids’s Hope Basis (PCCHF)—a Dickerson-based grassroots medical group that gives surgical care to folks in creating nations—to assist the therapy of kids and adults wounded throughout Russia’s invasion of Ukraine.

That is the second donation of medical provides that the state has made to Ukraine in latest weeks. In March, the governor introduced that the state was working with PCCHF to donate to moveable ventilators to deal with sufferers at entrance line hospitals in Ukraine.

“We stand able to proceed to help Ukraine in any approach we are able to,” stated MDH Secretary Dennis R. Schrader. “This extra donation of ventilators, bandages, and different medical provides will assist take care of Ukrainians wounded and struggling all through the nation.”

Immediately’s announcement follows the governor’s teleconference final month with Odesa Mayor Gennadiy Trukhanov.

“Our friendship, assist, and mutual help with our sister metropolis Baltimore is 47 years outdated and we’re grateful that you’re with us at present,” stated Mayor Trukhanov. oh t“Now, your assist is extra essential than ever. Thanks in your management.”

“That is the second time that my basis, PCCHF, has had the good fortune to work with the Maryland authorities in supporting Ukraine,” stated Dr. William Chester, PCCHF co-founder. “I’ve been extraordinarily impressed with the effectivity and enthusiasm of everybody from the Governor’s workers, Division of Well being, and warehouse logistics group. The partnership of United Assist Ukraine, PCCHF and the state of Maryland has been ready inside every week to show a request from a struggling Ukrainian metropolis right into a multimillion greenback assist supply. The Ukrainian docs on the receiving finish of this effort are immensely grateful for all of your efforts.”

The Maryland Division of Normal Companies and United Assist Ukraine—a grassroots group that collects and provides medical and humanitarian assist to Ukraine—is offering logistical and different assist. The ventilators will depart the USA tomorrow and the opposite provides ought to depart quickly and arrive in Ukraine, together with within the Baltimore sister metropolis of Odesa, within the coming days and weeks.

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