Direct Relief is working directly with Ukraine’s Ministry of Health and other partners in the region to provide requested medical aid, from oxygen concentrators to critical care medicines – while preparing to offer longer-term medical aid to people displaced or affected by the conflict.

Direct Relief’s response to the conflict in Ukraine is immediate – and ongoing. The organization has deployed a consignment of emergency packs to equip field medics in Ukraine and is preparing to provide additional deliveries of medical support for Ukraine and the surrounding countries receiving refugees during this crisis.

Direct Relief is working directly with Ukraine’s Ministry of Health and other on-the-ground partners to provide hundreds of emergency medical backpacks – used by first responders in the field to treat injuries and other effects of the crisis – along with critical care medicines, sutures, Combat Application Tourniquets, oxygen concentrators, antibiotics, and much more.

From increasing the spread of infectious diseases to interrupting maternal health care, humanitarian crises can cause catastrophic damage to the health of people displaced or otherwise affected.

Direct Relief is drawing on its extensive history of humanitarian response to determine what will be needed next – and is working to procure it.

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