The Free Trade Union of Medical Workers of Ukraine
The Free Trade Union of Medical Workers of Ukraine is appealing to the trade union movement for urgent aid.
Free Trade Union of Medical Workers of Ukraine – VPMPU are appealing for aid for a hospital in a mining region of Western Ukraine which is facing the severe challenges of the Russian invasion.
The Ukrainian health service was under-resourced before the invasion, staff underpaid, and hospitals starved of necessary investment. Whilst at the same time the Medical Workers Union has been campaigning to defend the health system against cutting, neoliberal reforms.
Now the pressures on this hospital have increased, there are thousands of internally displaced persons in the city, a large influx of patients, over half of the patients are casualties of the war who need rehabilitation.
Many of these casualties were themselves mineworkers and members of Independent Trade Union of Mineworkers
Ukrainians are paying a heavy price to free their country; the Ukraine Solidarity Campaign appealing for your assistance with this humanitarian aid for the rehabilitation and care of seriously ill casualties of the war.
We publish below the equipment were looking to obtain and will deliver to the hospital in Ukraine. There are two ways you can assist:
By raising in the Hospital, Trust, or Medical Centre where you work or in your area if they will donate this equipment which we will deliver.
You can donate directly to our medical appeal Crowdfunder which we will use to obtain equipment and transport it to Ukraine. Medical Workers Appeal
You can contact our campaign directly for further information on the appeal to assist in seeking aid: info@ukrainesolidaritycampaign.org
This appeal is being launched by donation from striking health workers in Bristol, of the GMB union No.8 branch:
When you take on a force that’s bigger and more organized than you, a force that’s used to winning you look for help. To workers that’s instinctive; we call it solidarity. Solidarity is what our trade unions are made of. The wider our solidarity spreads the denser and stronger it becomes. From the GMB picket lines in Southmead hospital, Bristol to our sister unions in Ukraine: We are proud to help launch this appeal with a donation of £250. Together we fight for workplaces and a world where solidarity has replaced fear and insecurity! GMB NO8 (Bristol Health) Branch, Wales and South-West region.
List of necessary equipment the Medical Workers Union of Ukraine are seeking
1. Rehabilitation treadmill (INSPORTLINE NEBLIN)
2. Wooden bars with obstacles
3. Trainer for restoring walking skills
4. System of continuous passive movement of joints
– ankle
-foot
-elbow
– radiocarpal
5. Ceiling lift
6. Trainer “Air walk”
7. MOTOmed
8. Strength trainer for different muscle groups
9. Rehabilitation cage
10. Mechanical simulators for hands and feet
11. Dynamic verticalizer
12. Rehabilitation stairs
13. Orbitrek
14. Step platform with height adjustment
15. Rubber balls of different diameters from 3 to 30 cm.
15a. Bean-shaped ball, 15v. Fitballs with a diameter of 55, 65, 75 cm.
16. Gymnastic sticks of different hardness and length
17. Finger rehabilitation simulator
18. Trainers, ring shaped expanders and with handles
19. Mats, gymnastic mats
20. Adaptive devices for dressing up and putting shoes on
21. Dumbbells 0.5; 1; 2; 3; 4; and 5 kg.
22. Breathing simulator
23. Couch 2 x 2 m. and 2 x 2.5 m.
24. Balancing pillows and platforms, balancing disc
25. Weights 0.5; 1; 1.5; 2; 3; 4; and 5 kg.
26. Spirometer, dynamometer
27. Rehabilitation stool on wheels
28. Poles for Nordic walking
29. Steppers
30. External fixation devices for bone fractures
31. Arthroscopic méniscal biters
32. Kirschner Wire Cutter
33. Electrocoagulator
34. Ophthalmic tonometer iCare IC100
35. Straight ophthalmoscope
36. A set of test spectacle lenses
37. Interacoustics MT10 impedance audiometer
38. Parient lift for the seriously ill
39. Electromyograph
40. Portable ultrasound device
41. Operating ceiling lamp
42. Device for non-invasive lung ventilation SIPAP Infant Flow
43. Pulse oximeters
44. Audiometer for newborns
45. Patient heating system on the operating table
46. Surgical instruments (clamps, dissectors, scissors, needle holders, tweezers, abdominal and thoracic wound expanders)
47. Laparoscopic trocars #6, #10, #12
48. Laparoscopic instruments (dissector, scissors, needle holders, clamps)
49. Distractor
50. Portable and celling LED lamp
51. X-ray transparent hydromechanical operating table
52. 12-channel ECG
53. Functional beds
54. Bedside tables for bedridden patients
55. A trolley for distributing food to patients in the wards
56. Bedside chairs-toilets
57. Monitors for monitoring the heart and respiratory systems of patients
58. Computer, monitor, laptop, printer, scanner for the trade union office
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