The last civilian hospital in Pokrovsk is now closed as the frontline approaches
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Getting even life-saving medical care in Pokrovsk is increasingly difficult due to the advancing frontline. The last civilian hospital in the area has had to redeploy all staff and relocate medical equipment and supplies. This facility previously provided urgent and specialised care to the war-wounded, particularly during mass casualty events.
"Our medical team supported the hospital emergency room and ICU. We witnessed healthcare workers salvaging equipment to transport to safer locations. Patients had already been evacuated," says Christopher Stokes, MSF Emergency Coordinator in Ukraine.
MSF ambulances continue operating in Pokrovsk and surrounding areas to support the health system with referrals or emergency medical evacuations."
In August, MSF ambulances made 320 medical evacuations from Pokrovsk, 55% of which were for ICU patients.
"This is not the first time we see hospitals close as the war escalates and the frontline moves closer," adds Stokes. "We have seen the pattern of evacuation and destruction in Toretsk, Selydove, Kurakhove, Myrnohrad, and Novohrodivka.
Over 30,000 people remain in Pokrovsk, effectively living on the frontline, just 8 kilometres away."
MSF teams continued to provide medical consultations to evacuees at railway stations when the evacuation train stoped en route from Pokrovsk to the west or south of Ukraine."