In partnership with Canadian Medical Assistance Teams (CMAT), RNAO issued a call for RNs and NPs to volunteer to go to Poland to provide primary health care, mental health care, parental/newborn care and other areas of nursing practice to refugees arriving from Ukraine. 

The application form is now closed and RNAO sends a massive thank you to all of the nurses who applied to volunteer. 

Please see the following media coverage featuring members of CMAT and RNAO who are providing care to refugees:

March 2022

• March 9, CBC News: These Windsor-Essex residents want to help Ukrainians with supplies and somewhere to stay
• March 10, Le Devoir: Face à l’enfer en Ukraine, l’impuissance des soignants
• March 18, CTV News: Refugees continue to flee Ukraine
• March 18, CBC News: March 18 - The National
• March 18, CBC News: March 18 - CBC Toronto News
• March 19, Global News: Canadian doctors, nurses provide medical aid to Ukrainian Refugees in Poland
• March 20, CBC News: Rosemary Barton Live
• March 21, PTC Punjabi Canada: Conversation with Ameek Singh
• March 22, London Free Press: Pediatric nurse takes unpaid leave to help refugees fleeing war in Ukraine
• March 22, 24 Polonia: Canadian volunteers help refugees
• March 23, CBC News: Life at a Canadian field clinic on Poland-Ukraine border
• March 23, CTV News: Canadian medics help fleeing Ukrainian refugees in Poland
• March 24, 24 Polonia: Medical assistance to Ukraine
• March 28, Healthy Debate: ‘I’m not scared of bombs. I’m not scared of war. I became a nurse for a reason’: Volunteers at the Ukraine-Poland border

April 2022

• April 4, Global News: London, Ont. nurse recounts providing aid to refugees at Poland-Ukraine border
• April 19, Grey Bruce This Week: Grey-Bruce health workers flying in to help Ukrainians this week

June 2022

• June 14, CKDR: Wabigoon Lake nurse shares Ukraine deployment story

If you are still interested in helping, CMAT gratefully accepts tax-deductible donations to support their humanitarian work. You can support a specific volunteer to help them with expenses by donating directly on the CMAT website, or make a general donation. Tax-deductible donations can be made by Interac e-transfer or PayPal to donations@canadianmedicalteams.org. Or you can donate directly online under 2022 Ukraine Conflict Humanitarian Response. If you are donating in honour of a specific CMAT volunteer, be sure to enter their name at the bottom of the donation form. 

CMAT also welcomes applications for volunteers to assist with other disaster responses. For more information, visit CMAT’s website and follow @CMATeams on Twitter.

Photos of RNAO members in Ukraine
Featured members: Ishvinder Bhathal, Brandon Duncan, Corsita Garraway, Louise Gilbert, Catherine Hayhoe, Nathan Kelly, Natalia Kusendova, Jordan Lenz, Michaela Parenteau, Elena Petretchenko, Val Rzepka, Ameek Singh, Kerri Tadeu and Shereen Worrad.