Condor Group humanitarian and medical donation initiative
Managing director and company founder Hermann-Josef Schulte travels to Ukraine several times to deliver relief supplies.
Delbrück / Lviv (al). The initiative around Johannes Grothoff from Delbrück has been bringing aid supplies to Ukraine again and again for months. While a team takes care of the donations for the Ukrainian fire department, Condor founder Hermann-Josef Schulte is responsible for the procurement of medical products. In addition to donations from the Condor Group, the medical equipment needed includes many other elementary products to ensure basic supplies. Equipment for the treatment of large burns, a compressor including an air treatment unit for the production of breathing air for respirators as well as a ventilator, defibrillators and other equipment have already been installed in Ukraine.
Before a convoy sets off, it is always reconsidered whether the team will actually enter Ukraine or whether the aid supplies will be handed over at the border. But with the values that the team transports, a personal handover in Lviv is preferred. I was very moved by the many impressions, but also by the gratitude of the people in Lviv," reports Hermann-Josef Schulte. Fully equipped fire engines, technical equipment, high-quality medical technology, medicines and dressing materials were handed over in Lviv, a metropolis of 800,000 inhabitants. The large city, also known as Lviv, is located in northwestern Ukraine, just over 70 kilometers from the Polish-Ukrainian border.
When they leave Delbrück, the volunteer group has a good 1,300 kilometers and 16 hours of driving ahead of them. The tense atmosphere at the border crossing is always clearly noticeable. No one knows what awaits the group. Just over the border, the group is met by Pastor Andriy Luin, who heads the only church hospital in Ukraine, and the deputy fire chief of the city of Lviv, Vitaliy Olsns.
Opened in 1903, the Scheptyzkyi Hospital was shut down during the Soviet era and reopened in 1994. Now the hospital is being expanded. "In two months, we want to have a new operating room area ready for use. We also want to open an area for occupational and physical therapy. Our doctors currently treat about 5,000 patients a month in the hospital but also at people's homes," Andriy Luin said. However, it is difficult to keep the hospital running. Many doctors and nurses have been transferred to military hospitals at the front. The war has also left its mark on the young and very friendly man. There is hardly a smile on his face, but as the equipment is unloaded, the tension is released for a moment. Andriy Luin also laughs. He is at a loss for words. Individual pieces of medical equipment are immediately taken away by a sick nurse, disinfected and put into use. "They will be in use with the patients starting tomorrow. This is how we save lives," says the nurse with tears in her eyes.
Since many doctors are deployed in the war, the joy in the hospital is particularly large that with the new technology also with fewer personnel can be operated, so Hermann-Josef Schulte and the company Condor generously donated a ventilator or the technology in innumerable discussions to favorable conditions for the Delbrücker Ukraine assistance could procure.
The Delbrücker Ukraine assistance asks further for donations, which can be transferred to the account of the DRK Stadtverbandes under the keyword Ukraine assistance and the bank connection DE67 4725 1740 0000 0111 14 .
