Painkillers and bandages for Ukraine: Vivantes clinics send medicines from Berlin – Berlin
The state-owned Vivantes clinics in Berlin are preparing a shipment of medicines, bandages and medical products that are to be delivered to Ukraine soon. This is what the Tagesspiegel leads from doctors who planned the aid mission with Vivantes boss Johannes Danckert. The trucks will start at around 9 p.m. at the Ukrainian embassy in Mitte.
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According to unconfirmed information from the Senate, the Vivantes board does not speak to the health administration, but directly to the staff around Prime Minister Franziska Giffey (SPD). According to the hospitals, an agreement was reached with representatives of the Ukrainian embassy to deliver the goods to a transfer point in eastern Poland.
Security sources say Ukrainian officials would probably bring the cargo from the Polish-Ukrainian border to the center of the country. The drugs include painkillers and anti-inflammatory drugs.
Russia’s leadership continues attacks on Ukrainian cities. As reported, Ukraine appears to be putting up more resistance than the Kremlin expected.
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In the meantime, German aid organizations have organized numerous emergency measures: The German Red Cross (DRK) started a transport with emergency relief goods, which also initiated the “Aktion Deutschland Hilft” and the Diakonie disaster relief. The United Nations Refugee Agency (UNHCR) reports that the precise distribution of the freight depends on the situation on site.
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The goods of the DRK are to be brought by truck to Lublin in Poland, the transport is the beginning of a supply line for the attacked Ukraine. The goods will be loaded this Tuesday in the DRK logistics center near the BER airport in Schönefeld. Vivantes operates eight hospitals and 13 nursing homes throughout Berlin and is Germany’s largest municipal healthcare group.