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Under the leadership of the canton of Vaud, the CHUV prepared its first delivery of emergency health equipment for Ukraine on Thursday. These include medicines, dressings, surgical tools, sterile equipment and first aid kits.
This first shipment, planned for the next few days, represents a third of the total amount planned of 800,000 francs in Vaud aid, or around 280,000 francs, Pierre-Yves Müller, director of hospital logistics at the hospital, told Keystone-ATS. CHUV.
Medicines from the central pharmacy of the Vaud University Hospital Center (CHUV) and in the amount of 40,000 francs will leave Friday morning for Geneva. They will then be sent to Ukrainian hospitals via a UN platform run by a Swiss doctor, Müller explained.
At the same time, 50 of the 150 pallets of medical equipment planned in total have been prepared to be sent between Friday and Saturday to the Ukrainian embassy in Bern, which will then send them there by road, he adds.
Flag raised and letter of support
In addition, as a sign of support and solidarity, a Ukrainian flag was hoisted on the mast which dominates the esplanade which connects the cantonal castle to the Vaudois parliament, indicated the same day the government. “With this symbolic gesture, the Council of State and the Grand Council thus reiterate their full solidarity with the Ukrainian people,” he wrote in a press release.
During the meeting of March 1, 2022, on the initiative of MP Pierre-André Romanens, the members of the Grand Council signed a letter of friendship to the Ukrainian people, which the State Chancellery will forward to the Ukrainian Embassy. in Bern.
Through these lines, MEPs “undertake with conviction, energy and solidarity to respond to requests for the welcome and protection of the Ukrainian people as long as war and insecurity strike the children, women and men of this country free”.