The war has become a challenge for volunteer medics
In an interview with the Polish Radio Ukrainian Service, PFVMH leader Gennady Druzenko admitted that “sometimes, the experienced doctors of the First Volunteer Mobile Hospital for the first time see such severe injuries” during this war. “We have to learn to live in a state of war. Like Israel has been living for decades. We […]
- 04 August 2022
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“Only together, helping each other, can we hold back this horde” – Gennadiy Druzenko
Appeal to Ukrainians and friends of Ukraine around the world We’ve been defending Ukraine from the russian invasion for almost six months. Any war naturally enhances the role of the state in society. Any war naturally narrows the room for freedom in the warring country. Any war means censorship in the media, restrictions on freedom […]
- 28 July 2022
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Changes in the PFVMH management
The leadership of the Pirogov First Volunteer Mobile Hospital underwent some changes as a result of changes in the hospital’s activities due to the full-scale aggression of russia. Oleh Shyba and Gennadiy Druzenko have swapped their positions, and now the former is the PFVMH Supervisory Board Chairman, and the latter is the PFVMH President. Colonel […]
- 25 July 2022
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“Rules do not apply in this war” – Svitlana Druzenko
Medical evacuation coordinator Svitlana Druzenko, who rescues the wounded on the line of contact, told NV how the mobile hospital functions under shelling. Currently, PFVMH has a lot of work in the country’s east: the hospital’s medics go to the sites of rocket attacks and are on duty close to the contact line – to […]
- 22 July 2022
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Gennadiy Druzenko: everything about PVMH, nothing about himself
The gallery of “video portraits” of PFVMH volunteer medics, skillfully “painted” by journalist Dmytro Tuzov, clearly lacked an important one: Gennady Druzenko. Formally, Gennady is a co-founder of the mobile hospital and the chairman of its Supervisory Board. In fact, he is the heart and soul of PFVMH. And this is not an exaggeration. Therefore, […]
- 17 July 2022
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Pirogov First Volunteer Mobile Hospital. The prototype of civil society
What does it mean to build a civil society? Can Ukraine become a model of new statehood where volunteer initiatives surpass the professionalism and efficiency of foreign organizations and government agencies? In the interview for Razom, co-founder and chairman of the PFVMH Supervisory Board, Gennadiy Druzenko shares his perspective. Pirogov First Volunteer Mobile Hospital, or […]
- 15 July 2022
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Skif: “Everything turns into hell here at speed”
The Pirogov First Volunteer Mobile Hospital saves servicemen and civilians, Hromadske reports in its video. They go to the front line, to the shelling zone, and pull out the wounded. The medics in ambulances, right on the fly, provide first aid before the injured soldier is put on the operating table. At speed, this process […]
- 14 July 2022
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Olha “Graz” Supan: “I believe in our victory – we have no other way”
Olha Supan says she could not stay in Austria because she was “going nuts.” On the second day after the beginning of Russia’s full-scale invasion, the Ukrainian anesthesiologist and resuscitation specialist from Graz called the Ukrainian embassy in Vienna, asking if doctors were needed? They said they were, but there was such a mess that […]
- 09 July 2022
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A volunteer doctor was evacuating the wounded for three months
Danylo Sereda, 29, an orthopedist-traumatologist from Lviv, was evacuating and rescuing wounded civilians and servicemen in Kyiv Oblast and eastern Ukraine for three months as a PFVMH team member. It was the longest mission in the mobile hospital since the beginning of Russia’s full-scale war against Ukraine, Radio Liberty reports. Danylo Sereda shows a picture […]
- 09 July 2022
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Humvees for PFVMH: inside and outside
In a new video, PFVMF leader Gennadiy Druzenko unveils details about the two sanitary HMMWV vehicles the volunteer hospital received from a benefactor who had asked not to disclose his name. Druzenko calls the vehicles a “dream of any combat medic” engaged in the evacuation of wounded soldiers from the frontline. Unlike secondhand ordinary ambulances […]
