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Our Country’s invasion of Ukraine continues. Hospitals and other health centers are bombed. Humanitarian organizations are alarming about the tragic situation in the besieged cities. “Lack of food and drugs threatens millions of civilians,” reports Reuters. The army of doctors and volunteers from Ukraine and abroad, including Poland, is doing everything possible to maintain the Ukrainian health care system in this critical situation. WHO teams work around the clock to deliver the necessary funds to Ukraine.
- When the oncologist Nataliia Verovkina drove her son to a safe place, she decided to return to Ukraine and help in the hospital
- The doctor has joined the growing army of doctors and volunteers from Ukraine and abroad who are struggling in desperate circumstances to maintain the Ukrainian health care system.
- “Work helps us to cope with the current situation more easily,” she emphasized in an interview with Reuters. In her opinion, helping others is the only way to work through the trauma of war
- Ukraine is actively supported by, among others World Health ORganisation. Its teams work around the clock to ensure a constant supply of medical assistance
- More information can be found on the Onet homepage
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Doctor from Ukraine: work helps us to cope with the current situation more easily
When bombs began to fall on Kyiv, oncologist Natalia Verovkina fled with her 10-year-old son from war-torn Ukraine. When the child was safe in Munich with his grandparents, the woman returned to the country. All this to support the medics and volunteers fighting to maintain the Ukrainian health system. “Someone had to help these people,” she told Reuters. «It was harder for me to do nothing» she added. The doctor notes that many doctors volunteer to work overtime. “Work helps us to cope with the present situation more easily,” she emphasizes. In her opinion, helping others is the only way to work through the trauma of war.
According to Reuters, the oncology institute where Verovkina works continues to operate, although its surgical departments only provide emergency medical care. The staff is concerned about the days ahead.
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Reuters, citing humanitarian organizations, reports that “the situation is particularly tragic in besieged cities such as Mariupol and Kharkiv, where days of intense fighting and the lack of food and medicine threaten millions of civilians”. In a very difficult situation are, among others diabetics. Valentina Ocheretenko, president of the Ukrainian Diabetes Foundation, admitted that the situation is dangerous for 2,3 million Ukrainian diabetics. 120 thousand of them have type 1 diabetes – to survive, they must take regular doses of insulin, it is necessary to monitor them.
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More medics, volunteers and organizations, also from Poland, are joining the fight to maintain healthcare in Ukraine. An example is the Polish Medical Mission, which sends transports with medical supplies to Ukrainian hospitals throughout the country. Medonet supports the foundation in these activities. You can help too!
How does WHO help Ukraine? Teams work around the clock
Ukraine is of course actively supported by the World Health Organization (WHO). As she informs, her teams work around the clock to ensure a constant supply of medical aid. It is about meeting the urgent health needs of the population living in Ukraine and supporting the Ukrainian health care system, but also for neighboring countries to have the infrastructure to meet the most important needs of refugees.
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WHO and its partners are taking action to reduce drug and rescue equipment shortages, including oxygen concentrators, generators supporting the power supply, surgical materials, anesthetics, sets for safe blood transfusion, insulin. As of March 5, WHO has provided 90 tons of medical aid.
As we read in the WHO announcement, the organization is in constant contact with the Ukrainian authorities, and all supplies are distributed in close coordination with the Ukrainian Ministry of Health.
- Not only the hospital in Mariupol. The s are also attacking other health care facilities in Ukraine
«WHO strongly condemns acts of violence against the health service. Every attack deprives people of life-saving services. Attacks on healthcare are a violation of international humanitarian law and human rights » – we read in the aforementioned release.
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