Pirogov First Volunteer Mobile Hospital

On Dec. 30 in the front-line city of Volnovakha, Donetsk Oblast, Riffmaster rock band leader Andriy Antonenko and popular singer and composer Oleksandr Yehorov gave a concert. The show, organized by the vice president of the Pirogov First Volunteer Mobile Hospital, Oleksandr Hahayev, in the 30th Guards Mechanized Brigade, was moderated by poet Vasyl Kovtun.
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On Saint Nicholas’ Day, the Pirogov First Volunteer Mobile Hospital received a gift – ZAZ Lanos Cargo pickup. The gift, intended for the PFVMH’s medevac, was “handed” on behalf of the Impreza Poliservice (IPS) company by initiators of the action and partners Oleksiy Zaika and Ihor Sechkov.
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A first-aid station with a warming tent has been launched on Dec. 27 for citizens crossing the delimitation line through the Novotroitske Checkpoint in Donetsk Oblast. The facility was set up under a project funded by the European Commission’s Directorate-General for European Civil Protection and Humanitarian Aid Operations (ECHO).
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The 30th Guards Mechanized Brigade commander and other officers of the brigade share their views of work done by medics of the Pirogov First Volunteer Mobile Hospital’s evacuation teams and explain why their presence in the brigade is important.

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A charitable exposition of icons, pained by Kyivan artists Oleksandr Klymenko and Sofia Atlantova on fragments of ammo boxes brought from the areas of Anti-Terrorist Operation, was opened in the Transfiguration Cathedral in the Kyiv’s neighborhood of Teremky.
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As of Friday, about 80 people of those crossing the delimitation line between the Ukrainian government-controlled and noncontrolled territories from both sides used services of the first-aid station opened on Tuesday near the Maryinka Checkpoint, medics who run the facility reported.
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For saved lives of Ukraine’s defenders, The First Volunteer Mobile Hospital evacuation teams’ members doctor Iryna Chekan and paramedic Victoria Zubkova have been awarded commemorative badges of the 30th Guards Mechanized Brigade commander.
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На прохання Штабу АТО Перший добровольчий мобільний шпиталь ім. Миколи Пирогова шукає таких медиків для роботи на Сході України в січні 2017 р.: (more…)

On Dec. 6, the Day of the Armed Forces of Ukraine, the commander of the 30th Guards Mechanized Brigade handed commemorative badges to three medics of the Pirogov First Volunteer Mobile Hospital. According to Oleksandr Hahayev, PFVMH Vice President in charge of liaison with the Armed Forces of Ukraine and law enforcement agencies, who leads the hospital’s 21st mission, the three include him, Maryna Bilinska and Vladyslav Filenko. He said two more PFVMH medics will receive their badges on Dec. 12.
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What is happening in Eastern Ukraine is not only a war between Ukraine and Russia with pro-Russian separatists but a war for the basic values on which the Western civilization is founded, the president of the Pirogov First Volunteer Mobile Hospital said. Gennadiy Druzenko made this statement in a conversation with John Edward Herbst, Director of the Atlantic Council’s Dinu Patriciu Eurasia Center and former U.S. ambassador to Ukraine, and Anna Maria Corazza-Bildt, Member of European Parliament and a member of its Inter-Parliamentary Delegation to Ukraine.
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