Assistance to medical institutions, attracting support from Europe

For me, as a volunteer, another important area of work is helping hospitals, hospitals, and medical workers. For many months, I and several other volunteers have been helping hospitals and hospitals. In war conditions, sometimes getting to the nearest hospital is the only chance to save lives for both military and civilian people.

To give an example: a small town in the Donetsk region called Konstantinovka had one very important hospital. Both civilians who suffered from Russian shelling and the military who were injured in dangerous hot zones near the city were taken to it. It is hard to overestimate the importance of this small hospital. I saw with my own eyes how doctors almost 24 hours by 7 days per week saved people’s lives, putting all their strength and resources into it.

 For the hospital, the most serious problem is the lack of medicines and other necessary things. As new wounded arrive in the wards every day, medicines, bandages, and other medical things run out extremely quickly. I and several other volunteers constantly brought the necessary medicines to the hospital in Konstantinovka. I am warmed by the idea that someone got help thanks to the medicines that we brought.

But, unfortunately, this story does not have a happy ending. The hospital in Konstantinovka was bombed by the Russian military. I and a team of other volunteers did not know about this and brought another supply of medicines and medical equipment – but they saw that there was nowhere to take them.

But, unfortunately, this story does not have a happy ending. The hospital in Konstantinovka was bombed by the Russian military. I and a team of other volunteers did not know about this and brought another supply of medicines and medical equipment – but they saw that there was nowhere to take them. The hospital, in which so many lives were saved, ceased to exist after the Russian bomb hit.

On my part, there was systematic assistance to settlements in the Donetsk region: Kostiantynivka (where we supported hospitals with medicines, which brought the sick and wounded from Bakhmut, Chasovoy Yar, Druzhkovka), Sloviansk (wounded from Kremennaya were brought there, a very dangerous place, albeit less known than Bakhmut). Now I also constantly support the residents of the city of Sloviansk (Donetsk region), I support six polyclinics in Sloviansk and the region, in the city of Svyatogorsk as well. These are the institutions of the first level of medical care – that is, those that are most necessary for both residents and the military. By the way, if possible, we also try to support the Ukrainian military – for example, we buy special equipment, turnstiles, and first aid kits for the military, which can actually save the lives of our defenders. 

Also, I and four other volunteers from different cities in Ukraine participated in the program from the Ukrainian consulate. The program was called “I am Mariupol and Azovstal,” of the five members of the delegation, only I was from Mariupol, who was in Mariupol during the shelling and fighting and was the organizer of the shelter in this deadly place. Even the UN recognized that Mariupol in those days was an extremely dangerous place, but thanks to the work of the team in our shelter, everyone remained alive.

According to the program, “I am Mariupol and Azovstal” our team traveled to most of the capitals of Central Europe. We visited Poland, Germany, France, Belgium, and other countries. It is also especially important here that we brought an ambulance from Europe, which was transferred to Bakhmut. I want to believe that it will save someone’s life, experience suggests that it will be so.