Georgia sends vital medicine to Ukraine

Georgia will provide vital medicine for Ukrainian citizens living in the country’s conflict regions who are unable to get proper medical help due to the ongoing crisis in the area.

Georgia will also send medical equipment to its neighbours, including special compact pharmacies and necessary vaccine for minors.

Georgia’s Health Minister David Sergeenko met his Ukrainian counterpart today and discussed the current situation and how Georgia could offer support. After the meeting, Sergeenko noted a variety of ways how Georgia would aid the troubled nation.

Speaking from Ukraine, Sergeenko said there were more than 300 people in the country with an acute kidney disease and the country was running out of vital equipment needed for dialysis treatment.

"We will help them with these materials,” Sergeenko pledged.

"There are also diabetics who do not have enough medications and we will help them too.”

Sergeenko said the youth vaccination process had been disturbed in Ukraine’s conflict regions so Georgia would supply affected children with all the vaccines they needed.

Using the special compact pharmacies Georgia planned to send to Ukraine, locals will be able to receive vital first aid, the Georgian Minister said.

"They also asked us for generators for hospitals and we will send this equipment as well.”

He added if it was needed, a portion of patients would be transferred from Ukraine to Georgia to be given more thorough medical treatment.

"But today there is no need for this” Sergeenko said.

It was earlier agreed a bilateral working group would be established to coordinate the two countries’ efforts and ensure all activities were conducted in a streamlined way.