US doctors provide free telehealth for Ukrainian soldiers, civilians, refugees

FIRST ON FOX: U.S. medical doctors are offering free telehealth providers for Ukrainian troopers, civilians, and refugees amid Russia’s invasion via an app linked to the Starlink web that Tesla arrange within the embattled japanese European nation. 

In keeping with a information launch offered completely to Fox Information Digital, VSee developed Aimee, a telehealth app that “brings collectively greater than 2,000 U.S.-based physicians to offer free on-demand physician visits protecting all medical specialties, together with Emergency Room and trauma.” VSee is a video telehealth platform with a 14-year historical past supporting well being efforts in North America, the Center East, Africa, battle zones, the Worldwide Area Station, and refugee camps.

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“Day after day in America, we witness atrocities in Ukraine on our screens. Aimee’s purpose is to ship again actual assist to straight and meaningfully make a distinction in Ukraine,” Laura Purdy, MD, chief of drugs for Aimee Ukraine and a telehealth doctor government, military veteran, and entrepreneur, informed Fox Information Digital.

Multiple million youngsters have fled Ukraine to neighboring nations for the reason that begin of the Russian invasion final month, in response to Catherine Russell, the chief director of the United Nations Kids’s Fund (UNICEF). At the very least 37 youngsters have been killed and 50 have been injured since Russian President Vladimir Putin ordered the invasion on Feb. 24, Russell stated. In keeping with the UN, the lives of at the least 549 civilians have been snuffed out throughout Russia’s invasion.

A shelling assault at a maternity hospital in Mariupol Wednesday left 17 injured and three lifeless, Ukrainian officers stated. Russian officers claimed, with out proof, that the hospital was a Ukrainian militia base.

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“American firms are doing their half by reducing off sources to Russia; right now, U.S. healthcare is stepping as much as flex its muscle to ship medical sources to the Ukrainian individuals,” Purdy added. “Aimee will join American medical doctors to sufferers on the battlefield to save lots of lives and get assist the place it is wanted most.”

Laura Purdy
(Laura Purdy)

She inspired People to assist the hassle. “For each American screaming at their TV and crushed by their social feeds, supporting Aimee in Ukraine is a chance to do one thing to assist,” she added. “This effort proves that free societies can do far more to assist in fight and the households fleeing for security.”

Mike Desjadon, senior advisor to American Responsibility and chief business officer at OxfordVR, is spearheading the hassle.

“America is a singular, indispensable, and infinitely succesful nation,” Desjadon informed Fox Information Digital. “As People, all of us really feel a particular kinship with free individuals and a necessity to assist these preventing for their very own freedom. We are able to’t simply watch. We see ourselves within the Ukrainian individuals, we need to assist, and throughout the board – we’re. We’ve seen an nearly unprecedented mobilization from personal residents and business to an enormous impact.”

Mike Desjadon
(Mike Desjadon)

“The largest manufacturers in power, finance, and know-how are already stepping as much as render the ruble nugatory, carry web entry to Ukraine, and convey Russian residents to the streets,” he famous. “Now we’re mobilizing U.S. healthcare, a $3 trillion pressure for good with digital capabilities, to carry U.S. medical doctors on to Ukrainian telephones and computer systems on the battlefield of their properties, shelters, and rising refugee camps.”

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“At $3 trillion, U.S. healthcare is twice the scale of Russia’s GDP. We are able to save lives sooner than Russia can take them,” Desjadon stated. He inspired People to help Aimee “with donations, and capabilities like clinician time, extra know-how sources, and even medicines.”

Chuck Lessin, founding father of three Virginia charities and the descendant of Ukrainian immigrants, informed Fox Information Digital that he’s organizing a coalition to help Aimee Ukraine.

“Three of my 4 grandparents emigrated to the US from Ukraine within the early 1900s,” he stated. “As destiny would have it my daughter married a person from Ukraine final 12 months. His identify is Oleksii Nikitenko and his dad and mom and lots of others in his household are nonetheless there. We’re panicked over their well-being.”

“Because the founding father of three charities in Richmond, I started on the lookout for methods to assist,” Lessin added. “Once I discovered of the awe-inspiring good that Aimee is doing in Ukraine, I knew this was the suitable trigger.”

Lessin, the founding father of Cheers, Jerusalem Connection, and Camp Binyan Torah, stated he’s utilizing his community to fundraise for the telehealth effort.

“I’m working now to tug collectively Virginia charities to kind a coalition to assist on this effort,” he stated. “This coalition will direct all donations of their entirety to this effort. Whereas the coalition is being fashioned, I’m directing the entire donations made via my Jerusalem Connection web site that point out ‘Ukraine’ to go 100% to this effort.”

Ukrainians in want can go to the web site https://seeaimee.com/ukraine.