PFVMH Anesthetist Brings Nearly 20 Tons of Food to 30th GMBr
Warriors of the 30th Guards Mechanized Brigade have received nearly 20 tons of food collected in Vinnytsya Oblast’s Orativ District and delivered to the brigade’s location by the action’s initiator– Ruslan Karimullin, student at the Vinnytsya National Medical University. In August 2016, Ruslan participated in the 17th mission of the Pirogov First Volunteer Mobile Hospital […]
- 20 October 2016
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PFVMH leader Gennadiy Druzenko: “Volunteer doctor may not just come to another hospital and start operating”
A unique mechanism has been developed in Ukraine for involving civil medics in filling vacancies in the Armed Forces. However, its implementation faces resistance from insignia-adorned bureaucrats, according to speakers at the first session of a Public Health Forum, which was held on the 7-B platform on the initiative of the executive secretary of the […]
- 19 October 2016
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Synergy of charity
A parcel of pharmaceuticals, endowed by the Yuria-Pharm corporation and hauled free to Eastern Ukraine by Nova Poshta, has been delivered to health institutions of Novoaydar District in Luhansk Oblast, the Pirogov First Volunteer Mobile Hospital (PFVMH) head doctor reported. According to Dmytro Vernyhor, who leads the PFVMH’s 19th mission in the East, UAH 40,000 […]
- 16 October 2016
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Shelling of hospital as “Russian style.” PFVMH medics count five shell holes near Popasna Hospital after night shelling
On late night of Oct. 15, Russian terrorists extended their traditional “truce shelling” to central parts of Popasna, Luhansk Oblast, including the Central District Hospital, which was far away from the positions of the Ukrainian army. Surgeon Dmytro Pozharsky and anesthesiologist Viktor Belilovets, doctors of the Pirogov First Volunteer Mobile Hospital (PFVMH), who are in […]
- 15 October 2016
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Two years since first public presentation of PFVMH. Progress report in DT interview with hospital cofounder and leader Gennadiy Druzenko
The project “Pirogov First Volunteer Mobile Hospital” (PFVMH) was first presented two years ago, just on the Feast of the Intercession, Oct. 14. At the time, according to Dzerkalo Tyzhnya, few besides its founders believed that they would be able to create in Ukraine a real hospital having everything: equipment, instruments, drugs, and a team […]
- 13 October 2016
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PFVMH has provided medical assistance to 9000th patient in Ukrainian East
On Thursday, Oct. 13, a 90-year old resident of Luhansk Oblast’s Novoaydar District became the 9000th patient who had received medical assistance from doctors of the Pirogov First Volunteer Mobile Hospital (PFVMH) since its first mission in Eastern Ukraine in late 2014. Vira Dekhtyaryova came to see doctor to the paramedic station in the village […]
- 12 October 2016
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“Banderites” in scrubs or How PFVMH stitches up Ukraine
On Sunday, Oct. 2, scarcely had Dmytro arrived at the Popasna Central District Hospital in Luhansk Oblast when a nurse ran out to the car and asked the new-come volunteer doctor to urgently examine a patient. The patient turned out to be a man of a venerable age, who was brought to the hospital by […]
- 10 October 2016
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Default on Minsk Arrangements as birthday present
Viktor Belilovets, anesthesiologist and resuscitation specialist of the Pirogov First Volunteer Mobile Hospital (PFVMH), celebrated his 42nd birthday in Stanytsya Luhanska on Oct. 9 – the day on which troops withdrawal from this town had been scheduled under the Minsk Arrangements. As usual on Sundays, there was not much to do, mainly routine GP’s workload; […]
- 07 October 2016
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Volunteer Hospital Doctors Bring Medicines, Attention and Care to East – PFVMH’s 19th Mission Launched
Since Oct. 1, 2016, the Pirogov First Volunteer Mobile Hospital (PFVMH) has launched its 19th mission in Eastern Ukraine. Twenty-three volunteer health care specialists who came from ten regions of Ukraine will work in hospitals of Luhansk Oblast’s Novoaydar, Stanytsya Luhanska, Shchastya and Popasna and Donetsk Oblast’s Volnovakha as well as four village paramedic stations […]
- 01 October 2016
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Gennadiy Druzenko: Deaths and diseases of Ukrainian soldiers are at the door of ATO Staff bureaucrats
On Sep. 30, medics of the Pirogov First Volunteer Mobile Hospital (PFVMH) are leaving the military units and temporary deployment places of the military near the front line since the Anti-Terrorist Operation (ATO) Staff does not provide documents necessary for their official stay there. In an interview with Apostrophe the PFVMH cofounder and leader and […]
