Energy company donates sell-by-date medical kits to charity for use in Soweto and Ukraine and beyond

                                                        

All donations will be gratefully received - from left, Rocky Clark, Charlotte Timmerhues (Humber Nature Partnership) and Steve McBride (Ørsted) 

RENEWABLE energy company  Ørsted has donated multiple out-of-date first-aid kits from its Grimsby-based depot  to an organisation that recycles their contents which  include splints and trauma treatment items.

Each of the 590 wind turbines in the UK East fleet has its own first-aid kit which all have a use by date.

 Ørsted chiefs were keen to find a home for the kits and linked up with Project Soweto via the Humber Nature Partnership.

This Hull-based organisation, which was founded in 2018,  will now assess what can still be safely used on human patients and which can go to animal rescue charities.

Said Soweto's founding member Rocky Clark: "Donations such as this  are important in supporting our work providing humanitarian aid to places such as Soweto in South Africa - where emergency medical care often has very slow response times - and to the front lines of Ukraine. 

"Not only do these kits save lives, but we reduce around 20-35 tonnes of waste from going to landfill every year."