Carla Melki, emergency coordinator for Doctors Without Borders/Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF), has just returned from the port city of Odessa in southern.
We intend to set up a health post in collaboration with the Moldovan Ministry of Health to be able to provide first aid in a safe and warm environment. We are also considering helping to set up advanced medical posts—small emergency rooms capable of providing first aid to the injured, before transporting them to hospitals. One, we will help with the preparation of hospitals to take care of the wounded. As well as fatigue and anxiety, some people are suffering the effects of untreated chronic illnesses. We are helping with this: a first donation of medicines and medical equipment arrived yesterday [Sunday, March 6] in Odesa from Romania, and we are hoping to donate some of it to hospitals in Mykolaiv. But clearly, across the country, the lack of medicines and equipment is already a huge problem, and the situation is only going to get worse. As a result, we are wondering whether to support the hospitals by providing ready meals for patients.
As the port city of Odessa, Ukraine, prepares for attack, our teams on the ground have been assessing the needs and preparing to support the health system ...
The first is to help with the preparation of hospitals, to take care of the wounded. We are trying to set up as many things as possible, while it is still possible. We intend to set up a health post in collaboration with the Moldovan Ministry of Health, to be able to provide first aid in a safe and warm environment. In either case, we don't know how much time is left before the town is attacked. We don't know how much time is left before the town is attacked. As well as fatigue and anxiety, some people are suffering the effects of untreated chronic illnesses. Some medicines are also starting to run short, and it is not possible to order them through the usual channels because the central level is no longer able to supply the whole country. According to the Moldovan authorities, approximately 120,000 refugees from Ukraine have already arrived in the country. The healthcare system has already been disrupted by war, and the impact is already being felt in supply chains. The city is clearly preparing for an attack and a siege. Despite this, travelling around is complicated due to the traffic jams around the Ukrainian security forces checkpoints in the city. Our teams there have been planning activities in response to the war in the country.
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