OLATHE, Kan. (AP) — A Kansas nonprofit is sending medical supplies to Ukraine after hearing alarming accounts of a hospital in Kyiv low on treatments and basic tools.
The Kansas City Star reports that Olathe, Kansas-based Global Care Force raised $21,000 to bring resources overseas.
Brenda Poor, a spokeswoman for the organization. said the packages were stuffed into seven large suitcases and checked onto a plane to Warsaw, Poland, alongside the non-profit’s director of operations on Tuesday afternoon.
The group has multiple plans for transporting the supplies _ which include thousands of doses of antibiotics _ over the border.