Volunteers of the Pryirpinia Community Foundation have started sewing unique products – portable stretchers for wounded soldiers of the Armed Forces of Ukraine. Over the summer, about 185 units have already been produced for the needs of the military. In addition, 280 pillows for hospitals and staging areas have been sewn in the sewing shop. This is stated on the organization’s Facebook page.
Sewing of the unique and at the same time highly demanded products by military paramedics and stabilization centers was started by Irpin volunteers. Since the beginning of the summer, they have already produced about 185 units of tactical stretchers,” the Charitable Foundation’s Facebook page reports.
Tactical soft frameless stretchers are soft stretchers for evacuating and carrying the wounded or for carrying loads manually. Sanitary stretchers are designed to transport patients, injured (wounded) to a sanitary transport for further medical care. Such stretchers are used to transport victims over long distances. Also, these stretchers can be used as an awning or as a bedding to protect against moisture. The tactical soft frameless stretcher has 5 pairs of handles: 4 pairs along the stretcher, 1 pair of handles at the ends. The average market price of such stretchers is 1500 UAH.
“We learned about the need for stretchers and pillows from paramedics and stabilization centers themselves, because we regularly deliver medicines and medical supplies to them,” says Tetiana Lagovska, executive director of the Pryirpin Community Foundation. “We started with a few electric sewing machines that our volunteers found and camouflage fabric that was also found by volunteers. At first, cutting and sewing were localized right in the foundation’s premises, and later the volunteers began to do some of the work at home. Among them, by the way, are residents of the modular town in Gostomel who lost their homes during the fighting.”
According to Lagovska, the sewing shop currently has 15 electric sewing machines, some of them even professional, from former garment factories, and a cutting table made by the husband of one of the volunteers. The raw materials, i.e. camouflage fabric, are provided by other benefactors, while the threads were purchased at the expense of the volunteers. As of today, 185 stretchers and 280 pillows – both regular and anti-decubitus – have been made and filled with cereals, chestnuts, and acorns. The paramedics of the 72nd Black Cossacks Brigade, which is currently fighting near Bakhmut, and the Kraken unit were among the first to receive the stretchers. Other recipients include military units in Kharkiv, Kherson and eastern Ukraine. As well as hospitals in Kyiv, Kyiv region, and Vinnytsia oblast, where wounded Ukrainian defenders are treated.
“If in the first six months of the large-scale aggression the Ukrainian Armed Forces soldiers needed bulletproof vests, helmets and even clothes, now the most urgent needs are medicines and medical supplies and equipment,” comments Oleksandr Tyhov, a former soldier of the 72nd Brigade and Chairman of the Public Council at the Bucha District State Administration. According to him, civil society organizations in the Bucha region understand these needs. Thus, the Local Communities Movement and its volunteers Myroslav Sorochenko and Oleh Solomakha constantly send medical supplies to the front line – bandages, dressings, plasters, bandages, medical clothing – and hospitals in Kyiv and Kyiv region receive the necessary medical supplies and medicines. With the active organizational involvement of Olga Kvasova, Deputy Head of the Public Council.
Kvasova, the “Ukraine Native” Charitable Foundation constantly delivers medicines to hospitals, and other philanthropists have provided family medicine outpatient clinics in the Buchanan district with much-needed generators. The same “Pryirpinya Community Foundation”, where members of the public council Tetiana Lagovska and Oleksandr Holizdra volunteer, implemented the “Social Medicine” program this year, handing over UAH 9 million worth of antibiotics to hospitals and public organizations from all over Ukraine with the organizational participation of the Public Council at the Bucha District State Administration.
Armed Forces of Ukraine, Holizdra, Pryirpinia Community Foundation, Лаговська
