How “ordinary folks” heal people and stitch up country
Online magazine The Ukrainians has published a report by Nadia Shvadchak on work of the Pirogov First Volunteer Mobile Hospital in the Anti-Terrorist Operation zone in Eastern Ukraine. The journalist visited Popasna, Novoaydar, Tryokhizbenka and Stanytsya Luhanska within a press tour organized from Nov. 7-10, 2016 by the Pirogov First Volunteer Mobile Hospital. In her […]
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Why do doctors from Western Ukraine go to work in ATO zone?
From Nov. 7–10, the Pirogov First Volunteer Mobile Hospital (PFVMH) organized a press tour in Eastern Ukraine for a group of journalists to familiarize them with work of volunteer medics in health care institutions located in the zone of Anti-Terrorist Operation (ATO). Yevhen Rudenko of Realist.online was the first to publish his report based on […]
- 18 November 2016
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Acting Health Minister’s order removes last red tape barrier between PFVMH medics and ATO warriors
On Nov 18, 2016, acting Health Minister Ulana Suprun signed Order #1254 “On organization of missions of medical workers who volunteered to provide medical aid in ATO areas.” Setting up a procedure for involving civil medics in provision of medical aid in the Anti-Terrorist Operation zone within the Pirogov First Volunteer Mobile Hospital (PFVMH), this […]
- 11 November 2016
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Leipzig’s Ukrainian community once again provides aid to PFVMH
The Pirogov First Volunteer Mobile Hospital (PFVMH) has received a parcel containing various surgical instruments and materials from the Ukrainian Greek Catholic parish community of the Holy Great Martyr George the Victory-Bearer Church in Leipzig, Germany. These items will soon be sent to Eastern Ukraine for volunteer doctors to use them for saving lives and […]
- 09 November 2016
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Good sense wins: ATO Chief’s orders legalize PFVMH participation in ATO
Two recent orders by the Anti-Terrorist Operation (ATO) chief have recognized that “medical workers and auxiliary personnel of the Pirogov First Volunteer Mobile Hospital,” who participated in the PFVMH’s August, September and October missions in Eastern Ukraine, where part of the ATO forces and facilities. The orders we issued by LTG Ruslan Khomchak, Deputy Head […]
- 31 October 2016
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Warriors of 30th GMBr receive one more food parcel form PFVMH medics
A trailerful of homemade preserves from villagers of Postolne and Chervone, Sumy Oblast, has been delivered to the location of the 30th Guards Mechanized Brigade and distributed among its positions. The boxes with food also contained touching letters and children’s drawings for warriors, anesthesiologist and resuscitation expert of the Pirogov First Volunteer Mobile Hospital (PFVMH) […]
- 30 October 2016
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Volunteer Medics Return from PFVMH 19th Mission in Eastern Ukraine
On Oct. 30, the Pirogov First Volunteer Mobile Hospital (PFVMH) completed its 19th mission, which lasted from Oct. 1. During this period, 24 volunteer medics provided medical aid to over 2,200 patients in hospitals of Luhansk Oblast’s Novoaydar, Schastya, Stanytsya Luhanska and Popasna and Donetsk Oblast’s Volnovakha, as well in four village paramedic stations in […]
- 28 October 2016
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Writer Volodymyr Rafeyenko about PFVMH Doctors: “People Who Have Heart, Soul, and Wits”
During missions in the Anti-Terrorist Operation (ATO) zone, many colleagues of doctors from the Pirogov First Volunteer Mobile Hospital (PFVMH) – and eventually their patients – become surprised to learn that the volunteer medics do not derive any additional benefit from their activities in the East. What they are only eligible for is their regular […]
- 26 October 2016
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PFVMH doctors help plant orchard in Stranytsya Luhanska
Last night, doctors of the Pirogov First Volunteer Mobile Hospital (PFVMH) became active participants in turning a wasteland plot in Stanytsya Luhanska into an orchard, as reported by the leader of the PFVMH team that works at the local Central District Hospital on the mobile hospital’s 19th mission. According to Hennadiy Syabrenko, skin and venereal […]
- 24 October 2016
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Art Project “Icons on Ammo Boxes” Has Reaped First Million Hryvnyas and Eased Communication of Ukrainian Politicians with Members of EP
Online publication Apostrophe has published an extensive interview with Oleksandr Klymenko, in which the artist told about the art project “Icons on Ammo Boxes” and shared his views of the situation in Ukraine and the world in connection with the Russian aggression. The project, which has already brought UAH 1 million in sold icons over […]
