• Twelve tons of medical equipment will be transported to Ukraine in the coming days from the logistics platform of Doctors Without Borders in Mérignac, near Bordeaux.

  • The association's emergency teams are already present at the Polish-Ukrainian border.

  • Another convoy is scheduled for next Friday.

About ten days after the outbreak of war in Ukraine by Russia, several tons of medicines and emergency medical equipment were leaving for Ukraine on Friday, from the largest logistics base of Médecins sans Frontières in France, in Mérignac, near Bordeaux.

Twelve tons of material divided into two 60 m3 trucks were ready to leave "Friday evening or during the weekend, once the administrative authorizations have been issued", indicated the communication from MSF.

In the boxes stamped "Urgence Ukraine", "Coordination Ukraine" or "War crisis": medicines, dressings, catheters, drains, scissors, disinfection solutions, survival blankets... but also bulletproof vests and white helmets to provide the first aid to wounded in war zone.

Teams already on site

The trucks will pass through Poland and Moldova to join, after two days of travel, the exploratory missions made up of around sixty people already present at the country's borders.

MSF teams were already there before the start of the conflict on missions to help treat other illnesses.

They were "suspended and redeployed to other towns where there were many needs", according to the communication from MSF.

In particular, personnel were trying to reach the Odessa region.

Friday afternoon, a third truck carrying three tons of the same medical equipment, chartered by MSF Switzerland, left the logistics base to provide care to refugees at the Polish border, noted an AFP journalist.

Other trucks have also left in recent days for Ukraine from the other major logistics base of Doctors Without Borders in Brussels.

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