QUADRESCUER
As part of the initiative of the CodeIT4Life Charitable Foundation, 10 ATVs with trailers and sets of spare tires were handed over to various units of the defense forces for evacuating wounded soldiers from the battlefield. Each quadracycle is equipped with a towbar, a winch, and a hydraulic booster.
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Evacuation of the wounded from the place of injury to the evacuation center is carried out by comrades or combat medics with the help of folding or scoop stretchers (by hand). The distance from the place of injury to the place of medical assistance reaches up to 5 km and can last up to 5 hours. In present conditions, the individual equipment of each serviceman (body armor, helmet, firearms, etc.) increases their average weight by 23-32 kg. Due to that, it becomes more problematic for the servicemen to move the wounded by themselves.
In military medicine, there is a key concept of the “golden hour” for providing care to the wounded on the battlefield: if full medical care is provided and evacuation begins within the first hour after injury, it will save the lives of injured soldiers in 90% of cases. Everything is important here: individual first-aid kits, dressings means, medical equipment, time and methods of evacuating the wounded.
Earlier, together with you, we already provided more than 500 tactical first-aid kits and the Pihzgauer 6×6 Vector armored evacuation vehicle to the military. We have already built and handed over two mobile field hospitals to the front. Now, with your support, we have covered the most important evacuation chain: from the point of injury to evacuation.
Evacuation kits were handed over to:
“Alpha” Special Purpose Unit, “Kraken” Special Unit, Separate Mechanized Battalion “Da Vinci Wolves”, 47th Mechanized Brigade, 13th Brigade of NGU (National Guard of Ukraine) “Khartiya”, 40th Motorized Infantry Battalion, 43rd Mechanized Brigade, the 113th Separate Territorial Defense Brigade and the 4th Border Detachment.
The “QUADRESCUER” project lasted for 2 months, and its cost was almost $100,000 dollars for 10 sets.
From this amount, 2 sets (a quad bike and a trailer) were funded by the “CodeIT4Life” team. While the other 8 sets were acquired thanks to the fundraising and support of concerned Ukrainians, as well as with the participation of friends and partners of the foundation from the United States of America.
