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Save the Workers
Power plants, energy grids, water treatment facilities, and other vital civil infrastructure facilities are prime targets for missile strikes. Not only do these strikes cut civilians off from water, heat, and electricity, but they endanger the lives of the workers—including engineers, technicians, and support staff—at these facilities.
Up to 3 workers die in each strike, and many of those present are also endangered by serious injuries—crush injuries, piercing injuries, and deep wounds that can cause death by blood loss. Workers frequently do not know how to provide first aid on such injuries, meaning the death toll rises.
Mission Kharkiv is providing first aid training and kits to workers in these facilities to help them save their colleague’s lives.
Our kits
As they were built and stocked in times of peace, few facilities in Ukraine are ready to deal with war-time artillery attacks. First aid kits are frequently outdated, too small, and ill-equipped to help with shrapnel wounds commonly caused by missile strikes.
Mission Kharkiv’s original aid kit is different: it has been designed and assembled to provide workers with everything they need to clean, close, and bandage various shrapnel wounds, staunch the flow of blood, and provide life-saving emergency aid.
Training
Having a kit is step one. Knowing how to use it is step two.
Mission Kharkiv has trained more than 4,000 workers to date on the use of our aid kits. We organize and run training sessions to teach facility workers the basics of blast injury care—identifying wounds, treating the most life-threatening injuries, and giving ambulances and doctors a better chance of saving lives.
Your donations go to not only creating the kits but making sure they can be used safely, quickly, and efficiently.
