To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, pursuant to the Answer of 4 December 2023 to Question 4277 on Israel: Military Aid, if he will list the (a) type and (b) quantity of medical supplies that have been provided to Israel since 7 October 2023.
Answered on
11 December 2023
In line with our approach of providing life-saving medical supplies in response to requests from other governments around the world, the UK has provided to Israel:
· 40 defibrillators
· 70 pieces of equipment for warming blood when it is being transfused into a patient
· Boxes for carrying blood supplies
· Intraosseous needles and drivers (emergency equipment for administering a blood transfusion to someone in extremis)
· Supplies for treating bleeding wounds, limb trauma and open chest wounds, for example from gunshots
· Warming blankets
· Syringe drivers (for administering intravenous medications)
· 100 suction units (top-end medical kit for clearing a patient's airway from fluids)
· 130 units of Lyoplas (freeze dried plasma that can be reconstituted with water and used as a blood product transfusion)
· Equipment for intubating patients (putting an airway into their lungs)
· 100 pelvic binders (equipment for stabilising a fractured pelvis)