Jersey Post is working with Jersey Overseas Aid to get the equipment to Warsaw, from where it willbe transported across the border into Ukraine by Crown Agents, Jersey Overseas Aid’s specialist logistics and procurement partner.

Ukraine’s Ministry of Health confirmed the oxygen concentrators are desperately needed. Jersey’sHealth and Community Services Department made the concentrators available to Jersey Overseas Aid who then approached Jersey Post for help with the logistics of getting them to the Crown Agentswarehouse in Poland.

Crown Agents, which has worked in the Ukraine for 25 years and still has afunctioning office in Kyiv as well as Lviv, will ensure the oxygen concentrators reach medical teamsand hospitals inside Ukraine, including in the besieged cities where they are needed most to treat civilians being indiscriminately shelled by Russia. Jersey Post’s offer to get these to the Crown Agentswarehouse will literally save lives.

Tim Brown, Chief Executive of Jersey Post said, “We stand with the people of Ukraine and had nohesitation in offering our expertise and logistics network to get this critical medical equipment towhere it needs to be, as quickly as possible.”

Carolyn Labey, Jersey’s Minister for International Development and Chair of the Jersey Overseas AidCommission, said: “This collaboration between Jersey Post, the Health and Community ServicesDepartment and Jersey Overseas Aid is Jersey at its best. Like the public’s extraordinary donations ofgoods and now money to the Bailiff’s Appeal, we see the Island pulling together to help the innocentcivilians caught up in Russia’s barbaric war.”

The ‘Nuvo Lite 5’ is a compact and transportable oxygen concentrator that can provide medical gradecontinuous flow oxygen from 0.125 to 5 Litres Per Minute (5LPM) using standard PSA technology.JOA remains in constant contact with its humanitarian partners in Ukraine and neighbouring countries and is receiving regular updates and situation reports from, among others, UNHCR, the Red Cross and UN.

@GovJsyHCS is answering a call for Oxygen supplies in Ukraine. 200 oxygen concentrators, initially bought for the Nightingale Hospital, are being donated by HCS to help with aid efforts. These will be delivered in the coming days with thanks to @jsypost and @JerseyOAC. pic.twitter.com/F58FpKHsW5

— Government of Jersey (@GovJersey) March 11, 2022

As the Island’s official aid agency, JOA is assessing and verifying the needs identified and selectingthe right partners who can provide life-saving assistance whilst ensuring all funds are accounted for. In addition to its own funding, JOA is administering the donations collected through the Bailiff’s Ukraine Appeal. Updates can be found here: https://www.joa.je/bailiffs-ukraine-appeal/ and peoplecan donate to the Appeal here, via Jersey charity Side by Side: https://www.sidebyside.je/