What We Do
Working shoulder-to-shoulder with the Ukrainian people as they defend their homes and families, from Lviv to Odesa to Kharkiv, arriving with desperately-needed medical supplies on the frontlines…
With your support, the team from Medical Disaster Response has sourced, supplied, and delivered more than 1000 tourniquets and over $60,000 worth of medical equipment and humanitarian aid to hospitals, teams of volunteer combat medics, and the Ukrainian military.
This work wouldn’t be possible without the generous donations of funds, time, skills, and sheer grit from our legion of supporters around the world.
Here is what you’ve helped us to provide over the last two months:
530 Tourniquets purchased ($26,500 value) and distributed to:
… the eastern frontline (260 tourniquets)
… Ukrainian Special Forces (40 tourniquets)
… Kyiv Battalion 207 (130 tourniquets)
… Kyiv Battalion Spas-23 (100 tourniquets).
8 overflowing cargo vans of humanitarian aid supplied and distributed across the country.
Medical supplies including stocked Individual First Aid Kits (IFAKs), additional tourniquets, and requested hospital equipment delivered to Odesa Special Forces, medical unit, and the local hospital.
Shipping cargo of medical supplies to Ukraine from the United States containing thousands of dollars of stocked IFAKs, wound care dressings, and splints.
Our licensed medical providers have designed an alternative to the CAT (Combat Application Tourniquet, aka “windlass tourniquet”) called the MDR TQT that are now being built by our volunteer teams in the US for shipment overseas. Unfortunately, we have seen an influx of price-gouged imitation CATs that are failing medics on the frontlines. To prevent more lives being lost from shoddy equipment, the MDR TQT has been designed as a low-cost ratchet actuated alternative to the CAT that can be manufactured by hand with limited material.
And since we don’t believe in driving around in an empty vehicle even on resupply trips, the Medical Disaster Response team has personally transported multiple refugees out of Ukraine and into Poland, in addition to coordinating with other NGOs for passenger evacuations.
Medical Disaster Response will continue our service in Ukraine until the last donor dollar has been spent. Here is what we have planned in the coming weeks:
Coordination of 3-day Combat Medicine and Tactics Training for Legion Obolon (Kyiv).
Multiple 2-day Pre-Hospital Medicine Trainings for both civilian groups and Ukrainian Special Forces in coordination with the local hospital in Odesa.
Pre-Hospital Medicine Training for Ukrainian Military in Kharkiv. This mission will include a sprinter van of humanitarian aid from Warsaw, Poland to Kharkiv, Ukraine (eastern frontline).
Multiple shipments of IFAKs and tourniquets currently inbound from the US.
Hundreds of MDR TQTs in production by MDR volunteer teams in the US.
Creating training materials and translated tutorials on how to build MDR TQTs. We will source supplies in-country to teach Ukrainian community members how to produce tourniquets for their own use without MDR assistance.