Mobile clinics

Cost : 25.000€

The Ukraine Medical Aid Committee supports the mobile clinics set up by Dignitas Ukraine in the Kharkiv and Sumy regions. This includes:

– primary care for elderly or disabled people
in villages or collective accommodation centres
– distribution of essential medicines
– transferring patients by ambulance to hospital
for further examinations or treatment
– distributing medical equipment:
wheelchairs, commode chairs, walking sticks and walking frames

The funds will be used to send medicines and medical equipment and to cover the costs of the mobile clinics.

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Mobile clinics

Results

Dignitas Ukraine cares for more than 2,000 elderly or disabled patients who do not have access to healthcare in the Kharkiv and Sumy regions of eastern Ukraine. Dignitas also provides medical care on a rotating basis with other NGOs in the transit centres in Kharkiv and Lozova, which take in people fleeing the fighting in the east.

The project is supported by the Grand Est region, the cities of Strasbourg and Orléans, Secours Catholique, SAFA, Oeuvre d'Orient, the Vatican's humanitarian aid service, Ouest France Solidarité, and others.

Mobile clinics

Why this project

9.2 million Ukrainians depend on humanitarian aid, according to the United Nations, or nearly one in four inhabitants. However, according to the United Nations Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs and the National Health Cluster, only 1.9 million people have received actual aid due to a lack of funds.

The withdrawal of the United States has had dramatic consequences for support to the most vulnerable. NGOs have halted their projects overnight, including mobile clinics in the east of the country. US funds are now trickling in, and in many areas, elderly and disabled people have no access to healthcare. Every day, people continue to flee the fighting. Medical assistance is needed in the transit centres where those who have left everything behind arrive.

CAM Ukraine wishes to support this essential project at a time when healthcare needs are so great.

Project beneficiaries

The beneficiaries of the project are elderly and disabled people who do not have access to healthcare in villages up to 15 km from the front line. Dignitas also works in a dozen collective accommodation centres for people with reduced mobility who are unable to visit health centres.
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How we are implementing this project

The Dignitas team consists of around thirty healthcare professionals and administrative staff.

  • Dignitas' main office is located in Kharkiv. It has a pharmacy run by a pharmacist who places orders and prepares kits for doctors and nurses who visit patients.

    Patients are selected in consultation with social workers in the villages. Partnership agreements have been signed with the Kharkiv and Sumy regions, as well as with the two capital cities of these oblasts. Travel arrangements are carefully planned. For each mission to Kharkiv and Sumy, one person is responsible for security. Vehicles travelling to areas close to the front line are equipped with drone detectors and mobile satellite internet to monitor alerts and Telegram loops indicating threats.

    The coordination of humanitarian aid is essential to meet specific needs and avoid duplication of humanitarian aid. Dignitas is a member of the National Health Cluster led by the World Health Organisation and works closely with regional humanitarian coordination bodies. It is also one of the recognised partners of the United Nations inter-agency system for responding to civilian evacuations.
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  • Soutien humanitaire et aide médicale grâce à notre association humanitaire CAM Ukraine

How much does it cost

  • Sending consumables and medical supplies3500€
  • Cost of a mobile clinic7500€/month
  • Total required25.000€