An A&E doctor from South Tyneside District Hospital is working to raise money to buy ambulances to help those in Ukraine where he was born.
Dr Anatoliy Telpov, 55, and NHS colleague Kelly Storey, 48, are hoping to raise £25,000 to purchase refurbished ambulances which are "urgently needed". Dr Telpov has worked in the UK for more than two decades and raised his family here.
Kelly, who is a medical secretary working at the Northumbria Healthcare NHS and from Whitley Bay, has teamed up with Dr Telpov to help. She also works as a member of ambulance crew for a private ambulance firm.
