Portugal to donate more than one million euros in medicines to Ukraine
PPortugal jealous, this Saturday, a shipment of medicines worth more than one million euros to Ukraine, informs a statement from Infarmed that Notícias ao Minuto had access.
The cargo left Lisbon this morning, containing “cancer drugs, antibiotics and preparations for injections, among other products”, can be read in the same note.
At stake are the products that were offered both by the pharmaceutical sector and by the Ministry of Health.
The transport of these medicines was made possible by the Portuguese Air Force, having as its first destination the airport of Rzészów, in Poland. They will then be directed, “within the scope of the European Civil Protection Mechanism”, to the cube regional, to be delivered on Ukrainian territory.
According to Infarmed, “medicines were one of the goods identified by the Ukrainian authorities as lacking, after the outbreak of war in that country”.
It says there is a shift to the constant source still existing in conflict zones in infrastructure as well, due to damage to infrastructure and legal circuits.”
This is already the sixth donation of medicines that Portugal has made in Ukraine since the beginning of the war in the country, which began on February 24.
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