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MOBILE CLINICS LAUNCHED THEIR WORK IN EASTERN UKRAINE
On 1 July, with the support of UNFPA and UK Government, two mobile clinics started operation in Luhansk and Donetsk regions, providing access to highly specialised medical and psychosocial services to people living in settlements along the contact line and remote areas in the East of Ukraine.
Mobile clinics conduct medical examinations, provide critical medical services and identify cases of domestic and gender-based violence.
Gynaecologist Yevheniia, one of the members of a mobile clinic in Luhansk region, comments: “From many villages, towns, and vast territories, it is difficult for people to reach a city hospital. Transport is often unreliable; the Joint Forces Operation is conducted nearby. The COVID-19 quarantine has further complicated the situation. Most often the clinic receives requests for assistance from women who have not been able to get a preventive examination for several years.”
Assisting to everyone in need, mobile clinics also provide patients with necessary personal protective equipment and follow a special procedure for cases of suspected COVID-19.
In the first month of operation, doctors of the mobile clinics examined more than 1,200 patients.