Providing Critical Medicines for Ukraine Relief

Your support is helping strengthen healthcare in Ukraine when it is needed most.

Since 2022, generous supporters like you have helped Direct Relief provide more than $2.5 billion in medical aid and support to healthcare providers across Ukraine. Together, you have helped expand access to care, strengthen specialized health services, support medical education and training, and ensure patients continue receiving treatment under extraordinarily difficult circumstances.

But the true story is not only about the resources delivered. It is about the Ukrainian doctors, nurses, paramedics, and healthcare leaders who continue caring for their communities every day despite the ongoing challenges of war.

Direct Relief's role is to listen, learn, and support the expertise, leadership, and resilience that already exist within the communities we serve. Together with our partners, we are helping strengthen healthcare systems so they can continue serving patients today while preparing for the future.

As Ukraine enters another year of war, the need for sustained support remains significant. Patients still need treatment. Healthcare workers still need supplies, training, and reliable infrastructure. Communities continue working to build stronger health systems even in the face of extraordinary uncertainty.

Thank you for standing with the people of Ukraine. Your generosity is helping healthcare providers deliver lifesaving care today while strengthening the foundation for healthier communities in the years ahead.

This story first appeared in Amy Weaver’s LinkedIn newsletter, Direct Relief: Hope Ahead.

Links:

• Ukraine: Building the Future, Today

Working during a power cut, surgeons at the Kyiv Regional Hospital restore a burn patient’s facial features using 3D-printed implants and a bone graft taken from the leg. Medical supplies, as well as financial support, for this and other operations under the burn treatment program of the Lviv-based Christian Medical Association were provided by Direct Relief. (Photo courtesy of CMA)

This February marked the fifth year of the conflict in Ukraine, and this winter brought some of the harshest conditions in several years. In Kyiv, millions were left without electricity and heat for days as temperatures dropped below –20°C (–4°F), and near daily air attacks placed tremendous strain on the health system.

Thanks to Direct Relief’s local partners and the generosity of supporters like you, critical health care has continued across Ukraine. Most medical facilities in Kyiv and across the country are able to keep working using their own generators and more than 2,000 rechargeable batteries supplied through Direct Relief’s Power for Health program, keeping operating theaters, blood storage, and other critical units running during outages. Partners have increased distributions of cold remedies, anti-inflammatory medications, and vitamins, and Direct Relief is supporting the establishment of 40 “invincibility points”—tent centers where people can warm up around the clock.

Since the start of the war, Direct Relief has delivered more than 6 million lbs.—over 3,000 tons—of medicine and medical supplies to Ukraine, helping Ukrainian communities access essential relief and life-saving care.

Thank you for making this possible and for helping sustain ongoing relief efforts across Ukraine. 

Links:

• Ukraine Relief: Response Continues into Fifth Year of War
• Direct Relief Surpasses $2 Billion in Aid to Ukraine
• Ukraine Response