Over the past seven days, Direct Relief delivered 657 shipments of requested medical aid to 46 U.S. states and territories and eight countries worldwide, including Ukraine.

The shipments contained 28.4 million defined daily doses of medication, including mental health medications, antibiotics, chronic disease medications, nutritional products, insulin, and cancer treatments.

This week, 19 pallets worth of oncology therapies were prepared at Direct Relief’s warehouse in Santa Barbara, California, for shipment to Beirut, Lebanon, as requested by Lebanon’s Ministry of Public Health. The cancer supplies will be distributed to the American University of Beirut Medical Center, or AUBMC, a state-of-the-art medical center with adult and pediatric cancer departments. As a result of staff and supply shortages, about 60% of all cancer patients in Lebanon are now receiving care at AUBMC. 

Additionally, this week HOPE Hospital in Bangladesh has been responding to recent local flooding with caches of medical aid and field medic packs donated by Direct Relief. Direct Relief is currently working to provide additional support to HOPE, as they continue to administer emergency health care to those impacted by the floods.

UKRAINE RESPONSE

Since February 24, Direct Relief has provided medical aid weighing more than 1.5 million pounds, or 750 tons in weight, with more on the way. Over the past seven days, shipments including cardiovascular medications, insulin, and antibiotics departed Direct Relief’s warehouse in Santa Barbara, California, bound for Ukraine.

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This week, 15 pallets worth of requested medical supplies donated by Direct Relief were received by local NGO, TAPS-Ukraine in Dnipro, Ukraine. The shipment included antihistamines, kidney and urinary tract treatments, anti-inflammatory medications, antibiotics and more.

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Slovak NGOs have been playing a fundamental role in assisting refugees fleeing #Ukraine. We’re excited that generous support by US charity @DirectRelief will help them to continue and expand provision of their services. #WorldRefugeeDay #UnitedWithUkraine pic.twitter.com/gP99s0KQF1

— USembassySK (@USEmbassySK) June 21, 2022

Operational Snapshot

WORLDWIDE

This week, outside the U.S., Direct Relief shipped more than 26 million defined daily doses of medication.

Countries that received medical aid over the past week included:

UNITED STATES

Direct Relief delivered 638 shipments containing 2.4 million doses of medications over the past week to organizations, including the following:

YEAR TO DATE (GLOBAL)

Since January 1, 2022, Direct Relief has delivered 9,446 shipments to 1,641 healthcare organizations in 52 U.S. states and territories and 78 countries.

These shipments contained 293.5 million defined daily doses of medication valued at $1.1 billion (wholesale) and weighing 8.7 million lbs.

IN THE NEWS

• Paraguayan Ministry of Health, C/Can and Direct Relief sign MoU to implement the Breast Cancer Drug Access Preparedness Programme – City Cancer Challenge: “The program aims to establish a standardized methodology for achieving in-country readiness to support equitable and quality access to breast cancer diagnostics and medicines. It will also be reinforced with ongoing efforts to strengthen local infrastructure and the healthcare workforce in Paraguay’s leading cancer treatment institutions under the supervision of the Ministry of Health.”
• Eighteen-Year-Old Food Blogger Hosting Pop-Up Dinners for Ukraine Relief – Westword: “The proceeds will benefit Direct Relief Ukraine. “My best friend, Max, his family is actually from Ukraine, and they have some relatives there who are struggling,” says Gorovoy, whose own family is of Russian heritage.”