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The Ministry of Health says that mobile “health centers” will appear in place of the destroyed local primary health centers. Each center will be equipped with furniture, a refrigerator, separate sanitary facilities, etc. This is a temporary decision — until full-fledged primary health centers are rebuilt on the site of the destroyed medical facilities.

Recently, UA Dream Charitable Foundation established the first modular “health center” in Moshchun village, Kyiv region. Currently, the Ministry of Health, in cooperation with the foundation, plans to put up a few more such mobile centers throughout the country.

For reference: on the territory of Kyiv region, the russians damaged 124 medical facilities and completely destroyed 4 of them within over a year of the war.

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Truth Hounds organization documents war crimes and is a member of Ukraine 5 AM Coalition (a coalition of human rights organizations that document war crimes during the russian armed aggression in Ukraine). It is Truth Hounds team that is responsible for the thorough investigation into the circumstances of the deaths of people, who were standing in line for bread when russian artillery shelled the civilian infrastructure of Chernihiv on March 16, 2022. As a result, 14 people died and another 27 were injured.

According to the Norwegian Helsinki Committee, in recognition for its work, Truth Hounds received an award that honors those who resist the oppressive state machine that encroaches on human rights values. 

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On Saturday, March 11, the all-Ukrainian project “Mobile Doctors” invites journalists to come along on a medical trip to Novoselivka village in Chernihiv region. The organizers pointed out that the Polish government helped to put up a modular town there. At the moment, up to 300 Ukrainians, whose homes have been destroyed, live in this town.

Accreditation required.

For reference: “Mobile Doctors” is a team of professional healthcare providers who have come together to treat people in the de-occupied villages and communities of Ukraine. They go to places where there is a shortage of doctors, pharmacies, and hospitals. They also developed a prototype of a “hospital on wheels” with its own laboratory.

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Since the beginning of the full-scale war, the Ukrainian-Israeli medical volunteer movement FRIDA Ukraine has been going on charitable rescue missions and helping civilians. Currently, doctors are actively working in Kharkiv, Kherson and Donetsk oblasts. Journalists are invited to join the team of medical volunteers during future trips to the de-occupied territories.

For reference: Volunteer doctors (of various specialties) make trips and help local residents who complain about their health. They provide consultations, perform surgeries, evacuate people and distribute medicine.

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Vitalii and Andrii are the first patients to receive bionic hand prostheses at the Superhumans Center. Wearing the prosthesis, one of the defenders of Ukraine drew a blue and yellow heart, and then picked up and put down various objects, turned on the charger. Now he can drive a car, fold his clothes and comb his hair by himself. Another defender painted the Ukrainian flag and tried to fill the bag with things and lift it up, which he managed to do.

For reference: the Superhumans Center is a modern prosthetics, reconstruction and rehabilitation clinic that will soon open in Lviv. Currently, the hospital facilities are being supplied with necessary equipment. Superhumans services are free of charge for the victims of war.

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Teachers in Zaporizhia hold sports and entertainment activities for refugee children every week. Entertainment activities and performances are held in a theater. Parents and children who moved away from the occupied territories of Zaporizhia and Kherson regions come here every Sunday.

Due to the lack of high-quality equipment and the fact that the premises are unsuitable for sports games, creative teachers invent games for children with objects made of available materials: paper, balloons, etc.

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Eight surgeons from the U.S. will arrive in Lviv to help Ukrainians free of charge. They will consult people with congenital and acquired disorders, mine blast injuries to the face and burn injuries. Some of the patients will undergo surgery after consultations.

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After an entrepreneur from Ivano-Frankivsk, together with German investors, set up its business, a newly built plastic surgery clinic placed only a few operations on a commercial basis. Since the war outbreak, everything has changed. It was then that it was decided to turn the facility into a volunteer surgical hospital where wounded soldiers are treated free of charge. Doctors from all over Ukraine and even scientists agreed to work unpaid. In addition, the entrepreneur opened an outpatient clinic where internally displaced persons are treated for free.

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On March 4 and 5, volunteers of “Brave to rebuild” project will help residents of Kyiv region. In particular, the activists will clear the debris of buildings destroyed during the war in Irpin, Hostomel and Horenka.

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In one of the villages in Lviv region, refugees (mostly from Donetsk and Luhansk oblasts) have set up an eco-farm and are building a house of hemp. In order to implement this project, “Go Friends” NGO had bought an abandoned farm and some land. A hundred people can live in such an eco-house. Currently, the refugees are busy insulating the walls of the future house.

In addition, the settlers have already brought in a hundred different animals to this eco-farm and are planting a vegetable garden. Five lakes on the farm were filled with fish.

The concept of this eco-household is that people work and provide themselves with food. There are also plans to start craft production on site.

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