On July 11, 4 ambulances have been handed over to navy hospitals, including to greater than 30 the Ukrainian navy had acquired by means of Peter Tokac’s effort.
Peter Tokac, an entrepreneur and sponsor of church building initiatives, and previously Ukraine’s honorary consul to Poprad, Slovakia, is a helicopter pilot within the Slovak firm Air – Transport Europe that gives emergency medical help in hard-to-reach mountainous areas.
Along with the Slovak group Rotary Worldwide based mostly in Kosice, Peter appears for sources of funding volunteer initiatives. Humanitarian help to Ukrainian troopers and civilians within the warzone additionally comes from the charity group Caritas Slovakia and the United Nations.
“We began again in 2014, in the course of the Euromaidan protests. It was an help program from Rotary Worldwide. We would have liked an ambulance and Peter as a volunteer lent it to us for some time,” Andriy Huk, head of the Endoscopic and Craniofacial division on the Kyiv-based Institute of Neurosurgery, instructed Kyiv Submit.
“When Russia invaded Ukraine, Peter known as me instantly and requested what assist we would have liked. The primary ambulances that we received in early March got here from him and fellow volunteers. Peter has skilled expertise in emergency medical help and he is aware of what sort of automobile is finest,” stated Andriy Huk.
In keeping with him, the Nationwide Academy of Sciences and Rotary Worldwide obtain requests from commanders of navy items, public organizations and hospitals and distribute ambulances so as of precedence. Ambulances go to the entrance line, decide up wounded troopers and civilians and produce them to the Institute of Neurosurgery or different high-profile medical establishments.
Peter Tokac and head of the division of endoscopic and craniofacial neurosurgery on the Institute of Neurosurgery, Andriy Huk. (Photograph: Patricia Cordell, Kyiv Submit).
Ambulances – principally French and Slovak – are dropped at Kyiv by Slovak volunteer drivers, after which the navy addressees deliver them to their items. The space to the vacation spot could exceed 1,000 km. Petro and his workforce do repairs and upkeep. On July 11, 4 ambulances departed for Cherkasy, Sumy and Khmelnytsky. One other ambulance is to depart after minor repairs shortly.
Rotary Worldwide has additionally funded the acquisition of a fireplace engine. After upkeep works, it’ll go to Bilyky, Poltava area. On June 18, a medevac automobile was delivered to a Ukrainian battalion preventing on the entrance.
“An abnormal ambulance can not experience on the battlefield. We approached this downside inventively: we purchased an abnormal offroad automobile and geared up it with stretchers. It went to Bakhmut, after which Izium. It’s our knowhow. No one’s achieved it earlier than,” stated Andriy Huk.
In wartime, a automobile lives three to 6 months due to tough roads and shelling. Till lately, ambulances have been repainted inexperienced, however now they don’t seem to be as a result of the Russians goal precisely such automobiles. Apart from, European international locations are operating out of automobiles that they will afford to ship to Ukraine.
Andriy Huk instructed Kyiv Submit that within the first weeks of the battle, when he joined Rotary Worldwide, the group launched a humanitarian undertaking to ship foodstuffs, medicines, energy turbines, gasoline burners and different necessities and tools to frontline areas. On the second day of the battle, Peter Tokac introduced 200 liters of diesel to the lodge Starry Carpathians in Uzhgorod that accommodated rehabilitating troopers.
“The principle plan is to crush these invaders. The closest plan is to purchase tools. Subsequent week, we’re beginning a brand new undertaking. We imagine it’s even cooler,” stated Peter Tokac.
