PhysioNet usually supplies equipment to help developing countries, but is now sending aid to Ukraine.
A charity based in North Yorkshire has dispatched a lorry full of vital medical supplies to Ukraine.
Founded in 2004, PhysioNet usually supplies equipment to help people with physical disabilities in developing countries. Since Russia's invasion of Ukraine in February, the charity has sent several consignments to hospitals in Lviv and Kyiv.Charity founder Peter Thompson said they had begun by sourcing and supplying refurbished physiotherapy equipment for children.
"The truck that has just left is our 126th container to 29 countries, it sort of grew I didn't set out to do this by any means," he said.It now collects redundant hospital hardware, wheelchairs and mobility aids from the NHS, councils, the Red Cross and private healthcare companies.Charity chairman David Kaye said their first shipment to Ukraine in the summer included hospital beds."Now as winter comes along this shipment has got blankets and consumables as well.
"I work as a driver and also help load, some people help with money and food, but everybody helps how they can. I help by driving."
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