“Born under a lucky star” – near Maryinka, military medics and a PFVMH doctor evacuated a wounded soldier
Today, on one of the Armed Forces of Ukraine’s positions near Maryinka, Donetsk Oblast, an enemy sniper wounded a Ukrainian serviceman. The bullet missed the femoral artery by a few centimeters, as reported by a Pirogov First Volunteer Mobile Hospital doctor who was part of the military evacuation team that brought the wounded to the […]
- 07 March 2019
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“Negotiations with the enemy are out of the question at all!” – PFVMH medics preventively examined Ukrainian warriors
A group of Pirogov First Volunteer Mobile Hospital medics spent the end of February and the first days of March at the front, where they examined warriors of several units of the Armed Forces of Ukraine and the Ukrainian Volunteer Army – a total of about 500 examinations within six days. The preventive survey comprised […]
- 28 February 2019
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$15,000 for PFVMH operation already raised at Icons on Ammo Boxes exhibitions in US this year
About $15,000 has been received by the Pirogov First Volunteer Mobile Hospital from the sale of Icons on Ammo Boxes during exhibitions in the United States this year, held under the “Buy and Icon – Save a Life” joint project of the PFVMH and artists Sofia Atlantova and Oleksandr Klymenko. The amount seems to be […]
- 15 February 2019
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Maryinka: one Ukrainian warrior killed, two wounded
This morning in Maryinka, Donetsk Oblast, three defenders of Ukraine were wounded by an anti-tank guided missile that hit a Ukrainian army vehicle. Sadly, the injury of one of the warriors turned out lethal. The two others were brought to a hospital by a medic of the Pirogov First Volunteer Mobile Hospital. Ihor Pysarchuk, a […]
- 29 January 2019
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OFFICIAL STATEMENT OF THE PIROGOV FIRST VOLUNTEER MOBILE HOSPITAL
Jan. 29, 2019, Kyiv As Ukraine approaches its presidential elections this spring and parliamentary elections this fall, the fight among various political forces for the votes of Ukrainian voters is escalating. Under the circumstances, which certainly feature a democratic process in general, an appearance of any public figure in support of some candidate/party or other […]
- 11 January 2019
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Icons on Ammo Boxes presented during IOTA Inaugural Conference
The Icons on Ammo Boxes project was presented Friday in the Romanian city of Iasi as a special event during the Inaugural Conference of the International Orthodox Theological Association, “Pan-Orthodox Unity and Conciliarity.” Twenty-seven icons painted by Kyivan artists Oleksandr Klymenko and Sofia Atlantova on ammunition and weaponry boxes brought from combat area were exhibited […]
- 18 December 2018
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14 more PFVMH members decorated by President for humanitarian participation in ATO
On Monday in the Kyiv City Hall, 14 participants in the Pirogov First Volunteer Mobile Hospital were given badges of the President of Ukraine “For Humanitarian Participation in the Anti-Terrorist Operation.” Roman Balatsky, Volodymyr Havrylenko, Oleksiy Holubenko, Vladyslav Horbovets, Sofia Hrabovska, Svitlana Druzenko, Iryna Yosypenko, Vadym Lakhnenko, Taras Lemeshko, Alina Narahan, Ivan Ozhoh, Natalia Potopolska, […]
- 17 December 2018
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PFVMH a unique phenomenon of civic engagement and self-sacrifice
On Saturday, Dec 15, 2018, in the Express hotel conference room, the Pirogov First Volunteer Mobile Hospital celebrated its fourth anniversary. Over the four years at the front, the mobile hospital varied out 44 monthly missions, during which 480 volunteer medics provided care to 50,000 patients in 49 locations in the zone of Anti-Terrorist Operation […]
- 07 December 2018
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Lithuanian President Dalia Grybauskaitė meets Ukrainian volunteers
This morning in the Lithuanian Embassy in Kyiv, President of Lithuania Dalia Grybauskaitė, who is in Ukraine on an official visit, met with representatives of Ukrainian volunteer organizations, specifically “The Wings of Victory, a charitable foundation, and the Pirogov First Volunteer Mobile Hospital. The Lithuanian leader reportedly initiated the meeting. According to the head of […]
- 30 November 2018
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PFVMH transfers surgical tools from America to hospital in Kropyvnytsky
Yesterday, the Supervisory Board chairman of the Pirogov First Volunteer Mobile Hospital, Gennadiy Druzenko, brought a parcel of surgical tools, received from one of the United States’ Ukrainian communities, to the Oblast Clinical Hospital for War Veterans in Kropyvnytsky. The PFVMH leader also fetched along some medicines from the mobile hospital’s stock in Kyiv. “The […]
