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By Ian Gustafson

Giving Back

UCC and Parkland Ambulance call on businesses to help send trauma kits to Ukraine

Apr 12, 2022 | 10:00 AM

The people of Saskatchewan are working to do their part to help Ukrainian residents as Russian forces continue to invade the country.

The Ukrainian Canadian Congress of Saskatchewan (UCC Saskatchewan) is calling on all chambers and businesses to contribute to the Sask-Ukraine TK-500 project.

The initiatives’ goal is to send 500 fully stocked trauma kits to communities in Ukraine to help people and the military who urgently need them as there is a medical equipment shortage in the country. Each bag costs $500

CEO and Owner of Parkland Ambulance Trevor Dutchak said his uncle Dave Dutchak, who’s the former president of the Greater Saskatoon Chamber of Commerce asked him to come on board to help with the project.

“This is very important because the situation of Ukraine is very traumatic and so the situations of whether it be explosives or whatever it might be these bags will come in handy for the paramedics over there and the military,” he said.

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Dutchak said each bag contains stethoscopes, trauma dressings to help with blood clots, and special bandages among other things.

“It will be kind of along the same lines of what a tactical paramedic would carry when they work alongside the police that works as a tactical paramedic,” he said.

Those who want to contribute financially can do so online at www.ucc.sk.ca or by calling the UCC Saskatchewan at 1-888-652-5850.

In 2016 they also created a project Ambulances for Ukraine, which sent 14 ambulances from Canada to Ukraine. Dutchak said Parkland Ambulance contributed an ambulance to the cause.

“Our families are from Ukraine so it’s very touching to see what’s happening there and if we can help out in any way, we certainly want to do what we can to help the people of Ukraine,” he explained. “I think it’s so important that the people of Ukraine get the support from the west to try and help out in whatever way we can, and this is just a way that we can try and help out to preserve lives over there.”

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