Volunteers in Swindon have turned an old bus into a mobile hospital which will soon be on its way to Ukraine.
The Swindon Humanitarian Aid Partnership has taken all the seats out of a Swindon Bus Company vehicle and fitted two hospital beds inside.
They will send this moveable med bay to the war-torn country along with heart monitors, crash trolleys, chemical toilets, and generators donated by a hospital in Southampton.
Trustee Mike Bowden told the Adver: "We were chatting about what the next step would be in our development and our effort to send aid to Ukraine.
"So we procured a vehicle, ripped out the seats, and kitted it out as best we could.
"We would like to appeal to oil companies to respectfully ask if they would help pay for the £1,000 in diesel it takes to make this journey."
The charity worked with South Swindon Labour candidate Heidi Alexander and former Transport for London managing director Leon Daniels to acquire a bus that was no longer being used but would still be able to make the long journey to Eastern Europe.
General Mike Jackson has become an ambassador for SHAP and will hand the vehicle over to the ambassador for Ukraine in Westminster in the near future.
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