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Newmarket Rotary Club packs medical kits bound for Ukraine, Poland

Volunteers packed kits with medicines donated by Canadian pharmaceutical companies that will go to Ukraine, refugee camps
NewmarketToday Staff

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Today, members of the Rotary Clubs of Newmarket, Innisfil, Cobourg, North York and East York visited our HPIC warehouse in Oakville to pack 60 Humanitarian Medical Kits (HMKs) of essential medicines bound for Ukraine and Poland.

Organized by Mr. Richard Mewhinney, president of the Newmarket Rotary Club and director of International Service for Rotary District 7070, 16 volunteers packed throughout the day until the job was completed. The 60 kits packed today contained medicines donated by Canadian pharmaceutical companies keen to support relief efforts in Ukraine.

The kits will be carried to Ukraine by HPIC partner, International Medical Corps (IMC) and are part of HPIC’s larger Ukrainian response, with a goal to send 400 HMKs containing 240,000 treatments to the country and surrounding refugee camps throughout 2022. Those looking to support HPIC’s response can donate to the ‘Ukraine Emergency Response’ at www.hpicanada.ca/donate. Funding will help mobilize these medicines.

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