Lunar Aid has put together an air freight transport network of volunteer pilots to provide logistical help for MEDICAL AID UKRAINE

Lunar Aid is a not for profit NGO established in support of Medical Aid for Ukraine (MAU). We provide logistical support to air lift MAU’s emergency medical equipment to their medical distribution centres in East Poland on the Polish/Ukraine border utilising our network of voluntary commercial and private pilots.

Medical Aid Ukraine is a newly formed group of doctors from across the UK who are collecting donations from hospitals, GP surgeries and drug companies.

It is headed by Dr Roman Cregg, a specialist in pain management at University College London hospital, who was born in Lviv, near Ukraine’s western border.

Lunar Aid are working with the aviation community to come together to help support MAU in expediting the movement of their emergency medical aid to their medical distribution centre.

We are also raising funds to buy more emergency medical trauma kits with the help from Homeless Friendly. Homeless Friendly is a Registered Charity No. 1182814, based in the North West being founded by Dr Zahid Chauhan OBE. Their goal is to ensure that people who are homeless or displaced receive the support that is rightfully theirs.

Our aim is to raise funds through our contacts and Homeless Friendly will use these funds inline with MAU to purchase medical trauma kits from the relevant providers.  These and MAU’s medical kits are then delivered by our network of pilots to Eastern Poland.

Each medical trauma kit costs £100

Please help by contributing towards the purchase of medical trauma kits by donating on our just giving page here

‘Medical Aid Ukraine’ is an initiative created by the collaboration of Ukrainian Medical Association of the UK (UMAUK president Dr Roman Cregg) and the British-Ukrainian Aid charity, a registered UK charity (Managing Director Tetiana Vovnyanko).

As a reaction to receiving dozens of requests and appeals for medical equipment, surgical supplies, resuscitation drugs and first aid kits, UMAUK members have established a network of doctors (led by GP Dr Natalia Ciapryna) around the UK (including England, Scotland, Wales and Northern Ireland), many of whom have no Ukrainian ties and kindly and
generously are dedicating many hours to help to support the movement.

Professor of Adolescent Psychiatry Dennis Ougrin is in communications with the Ministries of Health and Defences in Ukraine, monitoring the situation where there are critical medical deficits and what exactly is needed.

We are raising funds for further procurement of medical aid and transport of this, with the support of The On-Call Room, a forum of 11.4k doctors in the UK, led by Dr Kristina Rebecca Cranfield, an Emergency Medicine consultant in Edinburgh.

Multiple NHS trusts and CEOs of trusts have been contacted by the healthcare professionals volunteering with Medical Aid Ukraine. We have been overwhelmed by the offers of donations from across the country and are in the process of working with big logistics companies to get them by air or land to Poland and then onto Ukraine.

We are also communicating directly with procurement leads for the NHS and hope to be able to purchase much needed supplies via the NHS channels rather than privately.

British-Ukrainian Aid is a Charity Registered in England and Wales 1164472

Read the press article here

Trauma kits have arrived from the kind donations of many. These will be shipped out immediately to field hospitals in Ukraine
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Trauma kits have arrived from the kind donations of many. These will be shipped out immediately to field hospitals in Ukraine #medicalaidukraine #lunaraid

More medical aid, that's been flown to Poland by our volunteer pilots, delivered into Ukraine making it to its final destination
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More medical aid, that's been flown to Poland by our volunteer pilots, delivered into Ukraine making it to its final destination #lunarair #medialaidukraine #mau

This is the result of everyone's efforts, donated medical equipment delivered to one of the distribution locations in Kyiv, Ukraine.
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This is the result of everyone's efforts, donated medical equipment delivered to one of the distribution locations in Kyiv, Ukraine. #medicalaidukraine #lunaraid

Recent Press Article about the amazing efforts to deliver medical aid to Ukraine:
http://ow.ly/GzVh50JcQ8b

Recent Press Article about the amazing efforts to deliver medical aid to Ukraine: http://ow.ly/GzVh50JcQ8b

Pickup of syringe pumps for MAU recently at Cardiff Airport, swiftly transported to Norwich MAU hangar ready for onward distribution
#MedicalAidUkraine #CardiffAirport #lunaraid

Pickup of syringe pumps for MAU recently at Cardiff Airport, swiftly transported to Norwich MAU hangar ready for onward distribution #MedicalAidUkraine #CardiffAirport #lunaraid

Big thanks to Essex Air Ambulance for their recent medical donations delivered to us at North Weald #medicalaidukraine #essexairambulance #lunaraid

Big thanks to Essex Air Ambulance for their recent medical donations delivered to us at North Weald #medicalaidukraine #essexairambulance #lunaraid

Last week Phil and Keith flew vital medical aid from Elstree to Frankfurt to hand over to our new German partners, Ukraine Air Rescue for onward carriage to the Lunar Aid ground team, Anton and Doug then drove it on to Kiev hospitals #medicalaidukraine #ukraineairrescue

Last week Phil and Keith flew vital medical aid from Elstree to Frankfurt to hand over to our new German partners, Ukraine Air Rescue for onward carriage to the Lunar Aid ground team, Anton and Doug then drove it on to Kiev hospitals #medicalaidukraine #ukraineairrescue

Massive thanks to our latest partner for offering LunarAid pilots free handling, landing fees and storage. @medicalaidukraine

Massive thanks to our latest partner for offering LunarAid pilots free handling, landing fees and storage. @medicalaidukraine

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