'My heart was breaking': U.S. doctors and nurses bring aid and medical skills to Ukraine
‘My heart was breaking’: U.S. doctors, nurses bring aid, medical skills to Ukraine
Enlisting the help of two more friends with medical backgrounds — Dr. Cheryl Macy, an emergency room physician in Phoenix, and Carla Stark, an oncology nurse in the Scottsdale area — they began assembling donations of medical supplies. Within 72 hours, they collected 800 pounds of bandages, antibiotics and urgently needed medicines, including insulin, as well as $50,000 in monetary contributions.
And so on March 7, the four women, who as mothers of young children said they were also motivated by seeing the struggle mothers in Ukraine faced as refugees, hurriedly rearranged work schedules, set up child care and boarded a flight to Poland. They were assisted in their efforts by British Airways, which agreed to waive baggage fees for the hundreds of pounds of medical supplies they brought with them.
The women also worked with the staff at the refugee clinic and with doctors at hospitals in Lviv to identify urgently needed medications, then got what was needed from local pharmacies. They also assembled hundreds of first aid kits to send to Ukrainian soldiers on the front lines. After two years of treating seriously ill Covid patients in Arizona hospitals, Macy and Reznikova-Steinway call their trip to the region “strangely healing.”
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