2024-07-09 06:39:43
Blood-soaked army boots lie on the floor of a makeshift field hospital near the eastern Ukrainian town of Chasiv Jar. Above the body of their owner is a team of medics who, under the cover of night, are trying to stabilize his condition. “We are here day and night,” says a Ukrainian anesthesiologist in a Reuters report.
“We’re still working.” Field hospitals on the front are working non-stop, the wounded are increasing. | Video: Reuters
The Donetsk medical facility, which is one of many on the thousand-kilometer front line in the east and south of the country, operates around the clock. Wounded fighters are first brought here to stabilize their condition, and only then their journey continues to more distant hospitals, where doctors provide them with complete assistance. “The fighters we operate on are heroes full of positive energy. I have no right to allow myself to give up, hang my head,” says Osmach, a thirty-seven-year-old anesthesiologist.
Osmach is one of the many medics who spend days and nights at the field hospital to try to save wounded fighters who are risking their lives on the front line. “Thanks to the armored vehicles that we recently acquired, we have the possibility to transport a much higher number of wounded to us. There are still not as many of them as we would need, but at least we have some,” he describes the situation.
Forty-eight-year-old surgeon Sanych also plays a vital role in rescuing Ukrainian soldiers in the vicinity of Chasiv Jar. His work requires maximum concentration, but keeping his attention in tense situations is a challenge for the doctor. “I’m most worried about my hands working at all under the stress. To keep my mind clear even under the enormous pressure we experience here in the hall,” he admits.
According to the surgeon, the Russians do not hesitate to violate the chemical weapons convention, which complicates the work of medics. “They use everything that is prohibited. Even chemical substances, really anything. It happens that we take things out of the soldiers where we cannot explain how they got into their bodies,” he says.
Paramedics transport stabilized patients to safer hospitals at night to avoid the attention of the enemy army. “I always wanted to help in the army. Then the war broke out and I wanted to be useful and help. It turned out that when I went to the recruitment center, I became a nurse, although I never thought about it,” says the twenty-four-year-old Halyna, while moves away from the battle line with the patient.
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