Médecins Sans Frontières - Julien Binet's testimony

Unique Identifier Code / URN MSB145801

Date taken / Date Recorded 12/01/2023 11:59 AM

Country Ukraine

Commissioning section MSF-BELGIUM

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During my visit to Ukraine,
we were asked to go to Kherson

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to organise the evacuation
of a psychiatric hospital.

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And we tried
as quickly as possible

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to load the 100 patients,

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put them on the bus

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and go back to Mykolaïv
so that they can be transferred

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into the MSF train, which then,
took the patients to Odessa.

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Arriving at the hospital,
which was shocking and striking,

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was to see the patients
who were helpless, feverish.

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They just had bags

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with bread, stale bread
and that was all.

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To conduct an operation
with so much at stake,

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you have to make sure
that you are aware of what you are doing

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and we have to make sure that
all the people who are part of the project

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of this operation

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are well aware
as a person.

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And so we tried to explain
all the risks of explosion,

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the risks in the city, et cetera,

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so that each person is well aware of
going with us

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to do this evacuation.

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I was very proud to work for MSF

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and to have succeeded in
conducting this activity.

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But with a bit more hindsight,
after resting a bit,

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I also asked myself
a lot of questions about our limits

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how far we can go
with these security issues.

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And so, today, I'm trying

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to think a little bit about it
and share it too.

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Because I think that

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these are very, very complicated
dilemmas

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that we face

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in this context, but also in other
contexts of the world.

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