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Given the humanitarian crisis facing Ukraine, the state of California will send medical supplies to help those affected by the war, after the Russian invasion.
This US state is home to one of the largest Ukrainian populations in the country and has a history of collaboration with Ukraine.
“This is an effort to provide medical equipment that can save lives. We are not imagining what they need, we are providing the specific resources that the Ukrainian government is asking for,” California Governor Gavin Newsom, who helped pack one of the shipments, told reporters on Tuesday.
The governor also said he met – without specifying the day – with Ukraine’s consul general in San Francisco and a National Guard general to determine immediate needs.
The supplies will be shipped to Ukraine through Direct Relief, a California-based humanitarian aid organization.
According to the deputy director of the California Office of Emergency Services, Grady Joseph, “humanitarian aid, as well as helmets and bulletproof vests, are being sent from this warehouse.”
The governor thanked businesses in the state – including Airbnb, Apple, Facebook, Google and Kaiser Permanente – that have donated more than $85 million to the humanitarian assistance effort, but said there is much more to be done, including receiving refugees.
California will send mobile medical stations with beds, medical equipment, oxygen concentrators, personal protective equipment and other supplies to refugee camps.
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