Through it, it is expected to collect several hundred thousand euros, for which regarding 20 vehicles will be handed over to the Ukrainians – off-road vehicles with higher clearance, converted into ambulances.
Activists say that medics in Ukraine often have to travel through forest tracks, as maneuvering on main city roads risks being spotted by the enemy or coming under fire.
Not only that, even paved roads near the front line become impassable as they are often hit by heavy shelling.
Rokas Tamošauskas, a member of the society’s board, doctor anesthesiologist-reanimatologist Rokas Tamošauskas, says that in order to avoid the attention of Russian soldiers, the cars handed over to the Ukrainians are not even repainted, although this was done before.
This is to make them as similar as possible to civilian transport.
R. Tamošauskas claimed that Ukrainians most expect speed from vehicles.
“The decisive factor between life and death is speed. If you are able to quickly take him to a place where he will be provided with qualified first aid, there are still chances,” he told BNS in Vilnius on Saturday.
Hoping to raise a few hundred thousand more
On Saturday, representatives of the society presented the latest support package to Ukraine for the broader fund-raising campaign to be held in April – two SUVs, the trunks of which are full of infusion fluid, and easily folding stretchers.
Due to their flexibility, they take up little space and allow one person to carry the service friend by throwing the stretcher on his back.
“These are going like hotcakes,” said R. Tamošauskas, showing off the black stretcher.
The Society has also sent self-heating blankets, chest injury treatment equipment, blood transfusion systems, and medicines to Ukraine.
Until now, since last spring, the Lithuanian Society of Anesthesiologists’ Support Fund has already delivered 21 evacuation SUVs and other support for approximately 300,000 TL to the Ukrainian Military Medical Company. euros
The majority of this amount is made up of the funds from last year’s campaign organized together with the Circle K gas station chain. It will be repeated this year in April.
Circle K’s vice-president for the Baltic countries Skirmantas Mačiukas told BNS that the network will donate 10 cents to the society from every cup of coffee purchased, which will not be expensive during the campaign. Circle K will further double or triple the amount raised to raise around 200 thousand in total. euros.
“They do it for us”
S. Mačiukas said that the idea of supporting the Ukrainian military medics arose following talking with the war refugees who came to Lithuania in 2022 at the beginning of the Russian invasion and were employed by Circle K.
“We thought that if you don’t help soldiers who are injured, it might happen that others might not be so motivated to go to war. This was our idea to support doctors in particular,” he told BNS.
With the large-scale war in Ukraine entering its third year, R. Tamošauskas said that supporting the Ukrainians makes more and more sense.
“By going there with support, we testify to ourselves that we have not forgotten them, that this was not just an acute reaction of a few months,” said the doctor.
“Ukrainians are really tired, but they are doing it for us. That is why it makes sense to continue it – so that what is happening in Ukraine does not happen here, in Naujininkai hills,” he added.
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2024-04-02 03:27:35
