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Doctors: Medical aid and supplies head to Ukraine
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of my grandparents served in
World War II, and I remem-
ber their stories as a kid. I
also took an ethics course in
medical school on medicine
and Nazism. I remember one
of the main themes, that peo-
ple didn’t stand up when they
could have to make a differ-
ence.”
Donnelly joined Austere
Medical Relief Group, which
has sent three waves of med-
ical professionals to train
Ukrainians in combat casual-
ty care, deliver medical sup-
plies and assist in medical
evacuations. He traveled over
the border from Romania
and then headed to a loca-
tion south of Kyiv, “not on the
front lines, but nearer to the
action than probably what my
family’s comfortable with,”
he said.
Christine Torres Hicks/OHSU
OHSU property specialist James Pavlock unloads the last
donations headed for Ukraine at Delta Logistics in Wilsonville
in April. Delta Logistics transported the items to Seattle, where
they were loaded onto a plane bound for Poland.
Donnelly, 36, is a specialist
in emergency medicine and
has previous experience pro-
viding care in Swaziland and
Honduras.
He’s grateful for his col-
leagues at Columbia Memo-
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rial who have swapped shifts
to provide the time for him to
serve overseas.
The plight of Ukrainians
weighs on his mind and
heart, he said. “I get to leave
and they don’t.”
Donnelly grew up Catholic
in Ohio. As he prepared for
his departure, he recalled
the words of one of his fa-
vorite saints, Therese of
Lisieux: “What matters in
life are not great deeds, but
great love.”
Ukrainians are fighting and
dying in their homes, engen-
dering a feeling of common
humanity that prompted
Donnelly to step forward.
“People need help, so I’m
going to show up,” he said.
“This is something that hit a
chord with me. This is what I
need to do.”
Mila Volyanyuk, a former
speech-language
patholo-
gist at OHSU, was born in
Ukraine.
When the missiles began
falling, she, too, answered
the call in April.
She began looking for op-
portunities where she could
apply her medical training
and previous experience as a
search-and-rescue specialist
in the U.S. Coast Guard and
soon connected with Aerial
Recovery, a Nashville-based
international aid organiza-
tion focused on moving thou-
sands of orphaned children
from the east of the country
to safer areas.
She spent six weeks in
the country, moving chil-
dren and medical supplies
through the country.
She returned June 1 for an
extended tour with the orga-
nization.
“My purpose there isn’t to
fight Russia, but it’s to do
everything I can with our
team to help these children
in Ukraine,” she said.
Human trafficking is ram-
pant in the country, she said.
“Nobody really knows
who’s safe and who’s not, as
people are desperately trying
to get out of an area that’s
compromised.”
Port: Boatyard plan will work if it’s realistic
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where fishermen can store
equipment, tools and work
on their boats out of the wind
and rain.
Improvements initially had
been estimated at $18 million.
By reducing the capacity of
the lift from 500 to 300 mega-
tons, and reducing the scope
of some of the structures, the
estimated price dropped to
$6.2 million.
“We’re coming up with a
model that makes sense,” said
Matt McGrath, the port’s dep-
uty executive director. “We
need to be pushing on the
grant side to get 100 percent
funding.”
The port’s former boatyard
manager, Steve Barkemeyer,
spoke before hearing the re-
port, but urged commission-
ers to consider a larger lift and
to use an abundance of cau-
tion.
“Sadly, I have seen poor vi-
sion, lack of support, egos,
and self-centrist behavior,
which has been the history of
our commission and direc-
tors,” Barkemeyer said.
“The
boatyard’s
needs
should be based on who your
customers are that you’re go-
ing after. … We need to be
looking at bigger fish. We
need to be looking at the Alas-
kan fleet and the Southern
California fleet.”