Pirogov First Volunteer Mobile Hospital

The “Cooperation” program aired by Podillia-Center, the Khmelnytsky Oblast’s state television & radio company, on Oct. 15, 2015.

Oleksandr Hahayev, Pirogov First Volunteer Mobile Hospital paramedic, and Vasyl Lutyuk, Medicine Department Director at the First National Agricultural Consortium, a partner of the PFVMH, tells about the project on ensuring access to state-of-the-art diagnoses for rural residents.

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“People fall ill even when shells are not bursting.” Gennadiy Druzenko, President and Supervisory Board Chairman of the Charitable Foundation “Pirogov First Volunteer Mobile Hospital,” in interview with the parliamentary TV channel Rada discusses medical aid in the Anti-Terrorist Operation zone.

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On the Defender of Ukraine Day, Oct. 14, 2015, the Kyiv television channel aired a live program on “Medical Aid to Participants in the Anti-Terrorist Operation. Women on the Frontline.” The program featured, as TV studio guests, Oleksiy Pukha, member of the Supervisory Board of the Charitable Foundation “Pirogov First Volunteer Mobile Hospital,” and Olha Zavyalova, PFVMH paramedic.

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A psychiatrist who diagnosed Lukashenko recounts his experiences of the war in Ukraine (in Belarusian):

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In her native Chelyabinsk, Russia, Olga gave up her sports career and left old mother and went to far Ukraine — because she suspected that the Russians are told not the whole truth about the developments in the east of the neighboring country.

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Thirty medics of the Pirogov First Volunteer Mobile Hospital went from Dnipropetrovsk to the frontline. They had undergone training based on an American technology.

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The 5th Channel’s news report posted on YouTube on Mar. 29, 2015

A US-model battle stress prevention drill for warriors, volunteers and medics. The instructors’ task is to build strong psychological protection in a warrior. The drill lasts four days and goes at a furious pace. (Video clip in Ukrainian)

PFVMH Board of Trustees Chairman Gennadiy Druzenko presents an exhibition of classic style icons painted on used ammunition boxes from the frontlines in Eastern Ukraine.

The icons painted on ammo boxes brought immediately from the Anti-Terrorist Operation zone have a profound symbolical character. In fact, such an icon symbolizes the process of transformation of death, which these boxes carried inside, into life, said Druzenko.

According to the artists, they will donate part of receipts from the sale to the PFVMH.

Kyiv, Mar. 13, 2015 — The Pirogov First Volunteer Mobile Hospital (PFVMH) is launching its third mission. However, its further operation needs support, which has been lately narrowing, PFVMH Board of Trustees Chairman Gennadiy Druzenko said at a briefing in the Ukraine Crisis Media Center.

Part of the hospital’s volunteers are already in Popasna, Luhansk Oblast, and provide care to both servicemen and civilians, being based on the city’s Railroad Hospital. At that hospital employs, the head physician has in subordination three doctors and three nurses, whereas in Popasna alone, according to the last census, 22,000 residents, and in the Popasna Raion, 50,000. So one can judge on the demand for volunteer medics even not being a medical professional, Druzenko explained.

The PFVMH is a unique project performing a complete cycle – both providing care in mobile operating rooms and carrying out evacuation.
Its second mission, which lasted from March 6 to February 6, was near Artemivsk, Donetsk Oblast – on the Debaltsevo Foothold. Thanks to the volunteers, vascular surgeons in particular, limbs were saved for a great number of warriors.
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The 1+1 Channel’s Television Service of News (TSN) report on the PFVMH aired on Dec. 24, 2014

Eastern Ukraine lacks doctors, both military and civilian. The First Volunteer Mobile Hospital went to reinforce medical aid in the Anti-Terrorist Operation zone. The doctors had enrolled voluntarily. The hospital is mobile and quite self-contained. Now it covers one of the most challenging sectors – from the village of Pisky to the town of Volnovakha. (Video clip in Ukrainian)