Past Missions
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Medical Care Station in Przemyśl, Poland
March 05 - May 30, 2022
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In less than ten days since the beginning of the invasion a first aid station was fully operational providing hundreds of patients a day with first aid and urgent care, also delivering a full range of medication to people left without regular means.
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We set up a pharmacy with medications for refugees and First aid and urgent care for low-acuity cases. We made sure the kids had something to do to have a sense of normalcy in the shelter and provided arts and crafts as well.
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GDRT deployed over 70 medics for 3 months to run a 24/7 clinic at a shelter seeing up to 8,000 refugees daily. We were treating between 600-1,500 patients in a 24 hour shift.
For the first mission, a large humanitarian aid center was selected in Przemysl, a city in Poland next to Ukrainian border and a major refugee transfer hub. In less than ten days since the beginning of the invasion a first aid station was fully operational providing hundreds of patients a day with first aid and urgent care, also delivering a full range of medication to people left without regular means.
On the logistics side, a combination of local knowledge, planning agility, and strong ties to the US healthcare system allowed us to quickly establish direct supply lines from US sources to Ukrainian hospitals and clinics, bypassing delays at large warehouses and sorting facilities, which we routinely observe here firsthand.
Through this network we continuously deliver hundreds of thousands of dollars worth of life-saving and mission critical medical goods straight into the hands of operating surgeons and doctors in Ukraine.
From the heart of the work
Nika worked as a nurse, while serving with GDRT, taking shifts with others nurses and medics. She shared some of her impressions of working in her skilled role every day.
"I am constantly thinking about the children. Listening to the war through the voices of children - it is the hardest. These children, who had to grow up too soon because of this damned war. These children, who talk about horrors they've lived through, more calmly than adults.”
— Mishka Nizhnikov, Program Coordinator
"First we fled from Melitopol' to Zaporozhye, in order to cross the border. There were rockets. We had to jump down, about a meter, to get to the bomb shelter... it's dark... you can't see anything... I was scared... but I thought, it's war, I have to jump."
— Masha, Melitopol’, age 9
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