Hingham Doctor Bringing 1,500 Pounds Of Medical Supplies To Ukraine

HINGHAM, MA — A Hingham doctor is on his way to a war zone, fully loaded with over 1,500 pounds of medical equipment for Ukrainian victims amid a brutal invasion from Russia.

Dr. Frank Duggan, 55, left for Ukraine Sunday night through a non-profit he established called Health Care Volunteers International. According to the non-profit's website, Duggan spent a third of the last 15 years doing international volunteer medical and surgical missions with other organizations in locations around the world.

Duggan is board-certified in Internal Medicine and Emergency Medicine, but the website reads that Duggan has become somewhat of a "jack of all trades" out of necessity, working in remote and under-served areas around the world.

Through a telemedicine platform, Duggan told reporters he will be working with a team of doctors from both the United States and Ukraine in hopes to offload some of the overflowing hospitals. "The primary focus is going to be looking at what interventions we can do, prior to the arrival at the hospital, to decrease mortality," Duggan told WCVB.

An emergency trauma physician, Duggan spent approximately 3,500 hours engaged in volunteer work in Cambodia alone over the last four years, according to the website.

Duggan said it will be at least three weeks before he returns home.