A team from the North American Taiwanese Medical Association (NATMA) is to travel to Ukraine this month to provide free medical services to civilians and soldiers, and show Taiwan’s support for Ukraine in its ongoing war with Russia.
Jung Tsai (蔡榮聰), a former president of NATMA and the team’s leader, said the group’s upcoming trip to Ukraine is aimed at sending a message that Taiwan’s volunteer medical workers stand with Ukraine.
It would bring medicine and equipment to help those with medical needs, and would go to the capital, Kyiv, to work with local partners, Tsai said.
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On Tuesday, 10 members of the association who would be part of the mission met with US-based Ukrainian community groups at the Taipei Economic and Cultural Office in New York, Tsai said.
The meeting came before US President Donald Trump and Russian President Vladimir Putin are expected to meet at the US military base in Anchorage, Alaska, tomorrow to discuss the ongoing war.
Tsai mentioned the meeting and said he hoped that the war would end soon, because war always causes casualties.
“At the end of war, peace is most important,” Tsai said, adding that the team would bring such messages of encouragement during their visit.
Of the 10-member volunteer medical team, six would depart from Taiwan and four from the US.
The doctors specialize in surgery, dentistry and internal medicine, among other fields, and would arrive in Warsaw on Aug. 26 before heading to Kyiv.
The team plans to work in a military hospital for eight days and would also perform cancer-related surgeries, according to the representative office in New York.
In September 2023, members of the association held a volunteer clinic in a hospital in Lviv in western Ukraine, treating large numbers of wounded soldiers.
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