The Challenging Logistics Of Sending Medicine Donations To Ukraine

Parallel trading companies, which traditionally move medicines from low-priced to higher-priced markets across the EU, are getting involved in organizing donations of medical products to Ukraine.

panoramic view of Lviv Theatre of Opera and Ballet, Ukraine
Lviv is a staging post for deliveries of some medicines to Ukraine • Source: Alamy

As the conflict in Ukraine continues to escalate, European parallel traders are sending donations of critical medicines such as antibiotics and anesthetics across EU borders via Poland, Romania and Hungary.

Kasper Ernest, secretary of the parallel trader body, Affordable Medicines Europe, explained in an interview how the products were selected...

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