PFVMH organizes pre-medical aid training for 93rd DMBr
On Monday, the Piroogv First Volunteer Mobile Hospital organized training in pre-medical aid for the 93rd Detached Mechanized Brigade, the military unit reported on its Facebook page. According to the report, “medics and warriors of the 93rd DMBr practiced properly stopping a wound, restoring the patency of airways, dealing with chest traumas and preparing the […]
- 21 May 2018
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Last five days of April mission in Avdiyivka, PFVMH doctors slept dressed, in combat boots, with ballistic vests under their heads
Two doctors from Cherkasy oblast spent this year’s April in Avdiyivka near Donetsk, working with evacuation teams within the medical company of a very famous Armed Forces of Ukraine unit (we do not name it, being unsure if we have the right to). For Vadym Kozlovsky, Deputy Head Physician and surgeon of the Smila Central […]
- 11 May 2018
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PFVMH mission in April: transition from chill to warmth and from ATO to JFO
The April mission of the Pirogov First Volunteer Mobile Hospital, as compared to the previous one, features a reduction in the number of patients, who were treated by the volunteer medics, by nearly a factor of 10: 436 in April against over 3,000 in March. The reason was not so much the coming of long-awaited […]
- 12 April 2018
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Icons exhibition in support of PFVMH opens in LA
An exhibition of “The Icons on Ammo Boxes” showcasing works by Kyivan artists Oleksandr Klymenko and Sofia Atlantova was opened on Wednesday at the Loyola Marymount University in Los Angeles, CA. Two icons were sold on the first day, the receipts going to support activities of the Pirogov First Volunteer Mobile Hospital. The exhibition was […]
- 11 April 2018
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“Easter truce”: PFVMH doctor goes to evacuate wounded warrior
Yesterday night, a doctor of the Pirogov First Volunteer Mobile Hospital’s evacuation team within a military vehicle crew went for evacuation of a wounded soldier. Happily, the wound was not too serious, and after examination the warrior was promptly delivered to a hospital. “There was nothing especially serious – a tangential wound,” Vadym Kozlovsky reported. […]
- 11 April 2018
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PFVMH March mission in Eastern Ukraine: over 3,000 patients
During March, 24 medics of the Pirogov First Volunteer Mobile Hospital in the Anti-Terrorist Operation zone provided care to 3,224 patients. Nine of them were working at civilian hospitals in Luhansk Oblast’s Novoaydar, Popasna, Stanytsya Luhanska and Schastya as well as Donetsk Oblast’s Avdiyivka, and 15, in medical evacuation teams that reinforced the medical service […]
- 02 April 2018
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Ophthalmologist Lyudmyla Parfenyuk felt happy in Schastya
Today, ophthalmologist Lyudmyla Parfenyuk resumed her work in the Rivne Oblast War Veterans Hospital in Klevan after her month-long mission in Eastern Ukraine with the Pirogov First Volunteer Mobile Hospital. During March, working in Luhansk Oblast’s municipal hospital of Schastya (the city’s name means “happiness” in Ukrainian), the volunteer doctor served over thousand patients. “I’m […]
- 30 March 2018
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PFVMH and ULIE sign Memorandum of Cooperation
Today, the president of the Pirogov First Volunteer Mobile Hospital, Gennadiy Druzenko, and the president of the Ukrainian League of Industrialists and Entrepreneurs, Anatoliy Kinakh, signed Memorandum of Cooperation. The signing was held during a joint enlarged meeting of the Anti-crisis Council of Nongovernmental Organizations of Ukraine and the ULEI Board in the Coliseum conference […]
- 21 March 2018
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VR Health Committee to help PFVMH avoid legal vacuum and assist in ensuring just treatment of volunteer medics
Pirogov First Volunteer Mobile Hospital President Gennadiy Druzenko on Wednesday asked the Parliamentary Committee on Health to take charge of amending Health Ministry Order No. 1254 in accordance with the transitional provisions of the so-called Donbas De-occupation Law. He also once again appealed to lawmakers on the necessity to eliminate the injustice in social security of […]
- 13 March 2018
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PFVMH medics provided care to over 2,800 patients in February in the ATP zone
In February, a total of 2849 patients in the ATO zone received aid from 29 medics of the Pirogov First Volunteer Mobile Hospital, of whom 10 worked in civilian hospitals in Luhansk Oblast’s Novoaydar, Popasna, Stanytsya Luhanska and Schastya, and 19 reinforced the medical service of the Armed Forces of Ukraine’s units as medical evacuation […]
