London, Ont. nurse recounts providing aid to refugees at Poland-Ukraine border
He began working for the Canadian Medical Assistance Team in 2010 after Haiti’s 7.0 magnitude earthquake.
“But after quite a few discussions, we decided that CMAT could get involved and offer our services to the refugees.”“We then started to cross into Ukraine we also went into Lviv a couple of times. We were able to access our way into Lviv to get medication to hospitals, so we started doing drug runs for people and getting the supplies where they needed to go,” he recalled.He says he and his colleague did not go too far east in Ukraine, where active bombing was taking place.
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