Doctors Without Borders/Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF) teams, together with staff from the Ukrainian Ministry of Health, provided medical assistance to patients injured during a Russian drone attack on a passenger bus in Kherson on March 11. “One of the patients is a female medical worker who was returning home from her shift when the drone […]
Read More… from Ukraine: MSF provides emergency care for bus passengers wounded in a drone attack
“To be ‘alive’ is the lowest bar and the highest achievement for everyone” MSF health promotion manager Katsa Juliana Shea joined MSF in January 2022 and has since worked in Bangladesh, Haiti and South Sudan. She shares her experience. The absurdity of this war lies in its contradictions: the way life keeps going in parallel […]
Doctors Without Borders/Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF) runs the recovery mental health centre in Vinnytsia, where we have been providing specialized psychotherapeutic care since September 2023. This includes mental health support and treatment for people experiencing symptoms of war-related post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD). PTSD often appears alongside anxiety, depression, insomnia and physical symptoms, as well as […]
Death and the celebration of life have become part of the same day — and sometimes I still don’t know how to process that. It has been almost nine months since I stepped away from my role in Ukraine, yet I am still trying to understand how war and ordinary life coexist: How people continue […]
Read More… from Ukraine: “Death and… life have become part of the same day”
As temperatures drop as low as -20° C in Ukraine, millions of people are forced to live with limited electricity, heating and running water as Russian forces continue to bomb the country’s energy infrastructure. Doctors Without Borders/Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF) staff and patients alike are living and working without basic necessities, some in homes already […]
Read More… from Ukraine: Surviving the cold amid Russian strikes on energy infrastructure
During the night of Nov. 4, Russian military forces carried out strikes on Synelnykove district in Dnipropetrovsk region, hitting civilian infrastructure and private homes. Doctors Without Borders/Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF) supports a hospital close to the frontline in this area, where wounded patients were brought for emergency care. An MSF team – including an anesthetist, […]
Read More… from Ukraine: Emergency response after attacks in Dnipropetrovsk region
On April 4, Russian forces struck the city of Kryvyi Rih in Ukraine’s Dnipropetrovsk region. According to regional authorities, 18 people were killed, including nine children. “People were burned alive in their cars near their homes. On the playground, we saw the lifeless bodies of many children – it was heartbreaking,” says Yevhen Blinnikov, a paramedic […]
Read More… from Ukraine: MSF teams support, provide ambulance referrals after attack on Kryvyi Rih
Three years after Russian forces invaded Ukraine, dramatically escalating an international armed conflict that began in 2014, people continue to bear the burden of the war’s devastation as seen through their lost lives, lost limbs and lost homes. The resulting medical humanitarian needs are clearer than ever. The strain on Ukraine’s medical services has only […]
Read More… from Ukraine: People’s medical humanitarian needs remain as urgent as ever
The working day at the Doctors Without Borders/Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF) mobile clinic in Pavlohrad, eastern Ukraine, is almost over. Dr. Oleksandr Hontariev is counting the boxes of medicines, packing up for the evening, when a volunteer runs into the room. “We have wounded. Can you please help them?” they say. Dr. Hontariev pulls on […]
Read More… from “My town is on fire”: MSF provides assistance to people fleeing from Kurakhove
On the evening of Nov. 17, a densely populated area in Sumy city, northeastern Ukraine was bombed. The explosion struck a courtyard surrounded by residential buildings, damaging 13 structures and dozens of apartments. Doctors Without Borders/Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF) emergency ambulance teams provided medical assistance to injured residents. According to preliminary information from local authorities, […]
Read More… from Sumy, Ukraine: “It’s hard when you see the lifeless bodies of children”