PFVMH: eight years at the front
Eight years ago – on Dec. 15, 2014 – the Pirogov First Volunteer Mobile Hospital went to the front for the first time. Since then, hundreds of volunteer medics, thousands of saved lives, and tens of thousands of patients have turned PFVMH into one of the legends of this war. But the main achievements are […]
- 10 December 2022
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Bo, not the bear
Pseudo “Bo,” 42, a driver/paramedic, the location’s senior driver. In his civilian life, he worked all the time at the wheel, mainly for bank collection services. He has been volunteering for PFVMH since 2015. His first long, five-month mission began in July 2022 in Bakhmut. He worked in the village of Luhanske near Svitlodar, then […]
- 01 December 2022
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1909: Bloody November
“1909” in the title is not the year Stepan Bandera was born, and Edwin Perry became the first to conquer the North Pole. This is the number of sick and wounded cared for by volunteer medics of the Pirogov First Volunteer Mobile Hospital last month. This means that, on average, more than 60 patients passed […]
- 29 November 2022
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PFVMH signs a memorandum of cooperation with the Territorial Defense Command
At the end of last month, the Pirogov First Volunteer Mobile Hospital signed a memorandum of cooperation with the Command of the Territorial Defense Forces of Ukraine, PFVMH President Gennadiy Druzenko announced on Facebook. “Those who defend Ukraine at the front know the true price of the feat of the Pirogov First Volunteer Mobile Hospital’s […]
- 22 November 2022
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HOW MINISTER LYASKO FIGHTS AGAINST PFVMH (and why he is doomed to fail)
The Ukrainian government is jealous. And in this, it is similar to the “russian world,” which always looks askance at any grassroots initiative, any voluntary formations, any self-organization of citizens that is not sanctioned from above. The Pirogov First Volunteer Mobile Hospital, like other volunteer organizations, was self-organized in 2014, when there was an extreme […]
- 15 November 2022
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Free people of PFVMH
Volunteers are free people by definition. Descendants of the glorious Cossacks, who considered the risk and dangers of the steppe life an acceptable price for freedom. The Pirogov First Volunteer Mobile Hospital is a community of free people, a modern steppe brotherhood united by the love for freedom and Ukraine. Serhiy Lytvynchuk, the chronicler of […]
- 09 November 2022
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PFVMH “fills up the army’s medical gap”
Volunteers of the Pirogov First VolunteerMobile Hospital are mainly people with a medical educational background, such as a college or a university, although there are also paramedics, that is, those who have undergone training in premedical care, the PFVMH co-founder and leader, Gennady Druzenko said in an interview with Kolo.News. Over 800 medical volunteers who […]
- 04 November 2022
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A day in the war – PFVMH Zhytomyr
Just a day in the war… The road, which has already become almost eternal, endless; the autumn gray streak of light rain is replaced by a clear morning sky almost in line with the map of our country’s regions. The first autumn of the war, the 253rd day of resistance, the road home… The Kharkiv […]
- 03 November 2022
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Why do volunteers go to war?
Maryna “Morzyanka” came to the Pirogov First Volunteer Mobile Hospital a long time ago. Back in the days of ATO. She came and then returned again and again. She returned to save the lives of our defenders. It is not surprising that when the full-scale war began, she again returned to the family of volunteer […]
- 23 October 2022
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Medevac. Bakhmut. Looking from the ambulance
Probably, Bakhmut is one of the hottest spots on the entire Russian-Ukrainian front. Dozens of our wounded defenders pass through our stabilization point in this half-destroyed city every day. PFVMH has been working on this axis since May. The brigades and battalions that hold the Bakhmut Front are rotating, while we are staying. Every day, […]
