To help Ukraine, Canada has drawn on its own strategic stockpile of emergency medical supplies, accumulated in the event of a national emergency.
Since Russia’s invasion of Ukraine began, Ottawa has donated more than 375,000 items of medical equipment and medicines from Canada’s strategic stockpile.
This includes first aid and trauma kits, medications and surgical instruments, as well as gloves, masks and gowns.
The Canadian health minister also helped pass an international resolution this week in Geneva on rebuilding the strained Ukrainian health care system.
Jean-Yves Duclos held bilateral talks to get the votes needed to pass the resolution, which Canada adopted in Ukraine at the meeting of the World Health Assembly, the decision-maker of the United Nations World Health Organization.
The Ukrainian motion, passed by 88 countries out of 12, with 43 abstentions, follows attacks by Russian forces on Ukrainian health care facilities and equipment, including ambulances.
Source: Radio-Canada
