Japan donates medical equipment to Ukrainian hospitals worth $350,000
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The Japanese government approved sending various medical equipment to 25 hospitals in Mykolaiv, Kyiv, Sumy, Dnipro, Kropyvnytskyi, and Cherkasy regions in January.
What is the problem?
There have been at least 707 health care attacks between February and December 2022 in Ukraine, including damage to facilities such as strikes by ground-launched explosives, and other attacks such as looting, denial of access to health care, and disruption of patients' access to utilities necessary for medical care.
Nearly 200 medical workers, who are protected under international human rights laws, were either killed, injured, kidnapped, or arrested during the war.
These findings are part of a joint analysis of five different non-governmental organizations. Their investigation found that over 250 attacks during Russia's invasion last year left nearly one in ten Ukrainian hospitals damaged, some repeatedly.
What is the solution?
The equipment logistics are carried out by the patient organization CO "100% Life" under a memorandum with the Japanese side. The state has previously funded medicines to five hospitals in southern Ukraine that were affected by Russia's blowing up of the Kakhovka reservoir dam.
"Currently, while collecting the needs of medical institutions for equipment, we have received requests for portable, highly functional equipment. Ukraine, being at war, receives extraordinary support from the Japanese people in various fields, for which we are very grateful."
How does it work?
The equipment is expected to be fully delivered to hospitals by January 2024.
Over $350,000 worth of equipment, such as portable ultrasound machines, defibrillators, syringe pumps, patient monitors, generators, etc., has been purchased and is currently being delivered to hospitals.
The medicines have been delivered to Ukrainian hospitals for a year and a half now, with the support of the Japanese organization Peace Winds Japan (PW). Since the beginning of the full-scale war, 57 medical institutions in the most affected regions have received medicines worth about $1.5 million.
On January 7, Japanese Foreign Minister Yoko Kamikawa visited Ukraine and plans to hold meetings in Kyiv, including with Ukrainian Foreign Minister Dmytro Kuleba.
She announced that Japan plans to allocate $37 million to help Ukraine, which will be used to purchase drone detection systems.
