A war hospital near the front-line at Bakhmut requests help: they need an X-ray machine for detecting ammunition fragments in a body. Quite often soldiers are taken to the hospital with visible and extensive injuries, but more often with fragments of ammunition that penetrate a body after explosions and impacts. They may change location and move in the body. Sometimes the size of the splinter is just some millimetres: it is difficult to find it by touch and it may cause serious, life-threatening damage.
A professional X-ray machine is extremely necessary to save lives and relieve the torture of the injured as soon as possible.
Such X-ray machine has been found in Ukraine. That makes the project implementation considerably easier as there is no need for transportation and completion of documents. X-ray machine costs: EUR 25 000.
In the photo: Monta, representative of the association Tavi Draugi, with paramedics in Kyiv.
Banking details
Name: Tavi Draugi
Registration No: 50008218771
Legal address: Spāres iela 18 k-1, Rīga, LV-1002
Bank account: LV21HABA0551046111790
Bank: Swedbank AS
SWIFT: HABALV22XXX
Purpose of payment: Purchase of an X-ray machine for the war hospital
Tā kā savākto līdzekļu apjoms bija nepietiekams, kā arī iestājās noilgums, projekta sākotnējais mērķis tika nomainīts pret cita veida atbalstu. Par savāktajiem līdzekļiem tika iegādāta ātrās palīdzības mašīna, kam tika veikts remonts un uzstādīts atbilstošs aprīkojums, kas ļauj sniegt pirmo palīdzību karavīriem, līdz tos nogādā stabilizācijas punktos. Ātrās palīdzības automašīna jau nodota mediķiem frontē evakuāciju veikšanai un pirmās palīdzības sniegšanai.