KYIV, September 6, 2024 — As of today, the last civilian hospital in Pokrovsk, in the Donetsk region of Ukraine, has had to relocate all staff, medical equipment, and supplies as the front lines of the war approach the city. This facility previously provided urgent and specialized care to war-wounded patients, particularly during mass casualty events.
"Our medical team supported the hospital’s emergency room and ICU [intensive care unit]. We witnessed health care workers salvaging equipment to transport them to safer locations. Patients had already been evacuated," says Christopher Stokes, an emergency coordinator with Doctors Without Borders/Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF) in Ukraine.
