The case summarized • Narvik Hospital has donated large amounts of usable equipment to Ukraine after the opening of a new hospital. And other shipping costs came from a local fundraising campaign, which raised NOK 261,000. The summary is made by a Ki service from Openai. The content is quality assured by news’s journalists before publishing. – We knew that such auxiliary broadcast could attract unwanted attention, so we chose to keep a low profile. Now we can finally talk about the work, says Erlend Hagenes, head of the aid organization Solheimsbrakka in Narvik. For several weeks, he and several others have been behind a very special operation. On Wednesday, November 20 last year, the brand new hospital in Narvik opened. At the same time as the new hospital is being used, the war in Ukraine rolls on. The old hospital in Narvik is now just an empty shell after all the content is transported to Ukraine. Photo: Kjetil Moe In the old building there are still large quantities of fully usable equipment. In all silence, volunteers dismantle parts of the old hospital in Narvik to send it to Ukraine. news was present one evening last week with about 20 people when several trailers were filled with equipment. There was then a lot of excitement about whether the equipment would arrive at its end destination. Work on packing the old hospital has been in silence. Before the equipment was delivered in Ukraine, it was important to keep a low profile to avoid sabotage. Photo: Johannes Sæheim Pedersen / news started Splis The equipment itself is donated by the University Hospital in Northern Norway. The rest of the job is done by a gang of dawns consisting of Solheimsbrakka, UNN, and the aid organizations pillow – help with Ukraine, veteran Aid Ukraine and the Ukraine Association in Norway. Line Viklem Eidum from Solheimsbrakka. Photo: Johannes Sæheim Pedersen / news – It has been touching to see the commitment, says Line Viklem Eidum from Solheimsbrakka. A splice campaign resulted in NOK 261,000 collected from private individuals and business. The money has gone to finance packaging materials and equipment for packaging, fuel for trucks and other costs associated with shipping. At the old hospital in Narvik, many voluntary hands have been on to send medical equipment down to war -affected Ukraine. Photo: Johannes Sæheim Pedersen / news A few meters of plastic have agreed to ensure that the equipment is in good condition when it comes to. There is a lot of equipment that has been wrapped in plastic in recent weeks. Then it is nice to have a forklift to help with the heavy lifts. One of the trailers who have been used to carry equipment. Dugnad In the hidden in several European countries, help broadcasts have been subjected to sabotage and threats. In Norway, too, they have been aware of the dangers. – We work well with the authorities and have cooperating organizations along the route. Then we drive with quite anonymous means of transport. We do not give the transport itself any mention at any time, says Erlend Hagenes. Erlend Frithjof Hagenes has coordinated the auxiliary operation. Photo: Northern University A total of around 25 tonnes of medical equipment is worth tens of millions of NOK sent to the war -affected cities Kharkiv and Sumy. – We have not attracted much attention, either in the media or in social media, and people have shown an incredibly high degree of self -discipline when it comes to not giving such a good case the mention it deserves, he adds. The amount of equipment sent is enough to operate a completely “Norwegian” hospital in Ukraine. The map shows the two areas in Ukraine that are given medical equipment from the old hospital in Narvik. The equipment consists of, among other things, respirators, operating tables, operating benches, sterile central, anesthesia, blood washing machines and patient monitoring center to a whole intensive care unit. In Sumy, a separate women’s clinic will be built up, and they have also got a mammography unit. Alina Spodeneikoblant The Volunteers who have participated in the work of packing the old hospital is Alina Spodeneiko, who herself has fled from Ukraine. She expresses that it means a lot to her to be able to help her home country even though she is safe in Norway. Vasyl Bozhaoravasyl Bozhaora, like Alina Ukrainian background. He is grateful that Ukrainians resident in Norway contribute as volunteers even though they no longer hear war sirens. – The hospitals receive injuries from several regions. The equipment we send may be the difference between life and death, he says. Gives hope this week came the message that the cargo had arrived at the children’s hospital in Kharkiv. Chairman of Solheimsbrakka, Espen Viklem Eidum. Photo: Johannes Sæheim Pedersen / news – We’ve seen the pictures from there. It is very good to see that it is emerging, says Espen Viklem Eidum, chairman of Solheimsbrakka. He says he was a little emotional when he saw the pictures. – We stood here a week ago and packed it down, and we see that today they are unpacking it down there, adds Line Viklem Eidum. – Many people feel powerless about what is happening in Ukraine. Contributing in this way gives hope, says Espen Viklem Eidum. Here, one of the shipments has come safely to Kharkiv. Front in Ukraine: The equipment from Narvik is used to build a children’s hospital and a women’s clinic. Photo: The Solheimsbrakka Association Medical Equipment for tens of millions is secretly sent from abandoned Narvik Hospital to Kharkiv in Ukraine. Published 10.03.2025, at. 22.25
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