Delivery of Specialized Vehicles and City Buses – December 2022
Daryna TokmachovaAccording to estimates by the Ukrainian Ministry of Health, Ukraine loses fifteen ambulances every day. This high figure is explained by the bombing of hospitals and deliberate shootings at ambulances that intervene to save the lives of the wounded on the battlefield, during mine clearance operations or actions in liberated territories.
Aware of the importance of these needs, AMC France-Ukraine recently delivered 7 new ambulances, in addition to the 81 sent since February 24, 2022. These vehicles were donated by the France-Ukraine Ambulance Solidarity collective. Fourteen French ambulance drivers, members of this collective, participated in the delivery of these ambulances to Lviv
Their Ukrainian counterparts took over to bring these seven new medical vehicles to the Donetsk region, destined for the casualty evacuation teams operating near Soledar, Bahmout and Kramatorsk. This is the 5th SAFU convoy. We would particularly like to thank our partners at Harmonie ambulance Groupe VYV Ambulances for their involvement in its preparation. The next convoy will leave in April. On this occasion, the ambulance drivers will visit healthcare facilities and emergency centres in Ukraine.
However, medical transport is not the only target of the Russian strikes. The urban transport fleet is just as badly affected by the bombings. The damage is particularly noticeable in the Kharkiv region, whose administrative centre was left practically deprived of any means of municipal transport. Thanks to a donation from the town hall of Le Havre, AMC France-Ukraine was able to offer the city of Kharkiv a bus and a transport vehicle for people with reduced mobility.
Finally, greater importance must be given in this time of war to the transport of people with disabilities. This is why AMC France-Ukraine is particularly pleased to have been able to deliver to Ukraine two vehicles for transporting people with reduced mobility (TPMR) from donations from the city hall of Le Havre, the city of Bordeaux and Kéolis Bordeaux Métropole. One of these two vehicles was assigned to the municipal transport service of Kharkiv, the other to the Invasport association, which takes care of disabled athletes. This last bus, which had been used to transport a team of young Ukrainian disabled swimmers, refugees in the Paris region since spring 2022, has thus definitively joined the Ukrainian athletes.
