Bucks County continues to send help and aid to those in need in the Ukraine, even after the initial shock of their invasion has subsided. John McDevitt wrote about the international aid for KYW Newsradio.

A year after the Russian invasion of Ukraine, Ukrainian Federation of America volunteers are continuing to sort, pack, and prepare lifesaving aid inside a warehouse in Lower Southampton Township to be shipped to health care facilities in Ukraine.

“Surgical instruments, medical supplies, medical computers, patient monitoring devices, medications, wound care,” said Marta Pilip, director of UFA’s humanitarian aid division. “We send some hospital beds, hospital cribs, hospital mattresses.”

The Jenkintown-based nonprofit relies fully on the work of volunteers to gather after work and prepare the items for shipment.

In all, the group has sent more than 200 pallets and supplied more than 45 hospitals and medical facilities in the European country. All the items have been donated by hospitals from around the country.

“The need is there,” said Pilip. “Every day, hundreds of Ukrainians are dying and thousands of Ukrainians are wounded. The medical system is overwhelmed.”

Since the beginning of the war, the organization has focused efforts on health care items because it has several doctors among its members.

“We have experience with that, so we decided to use that experience and help in the medical field,” said Pilip.

Read more about the aid at KYW Newsradio.

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