Médecins Sans Frontières - MSF medicalised train, 500 patients

Unique Identifier Code / URN MSB127150

Date taken / Date Recorded 19/05/2022 12:00 AM

Country Ukraine

Commissioning section MSF-BELGIUM

Photographer / videographer / producer Andrii Ovod

Copyright Andrii Ovod/MSF

Usage Rights (MSF) Advertising Campaign, External Media, MSF Fundraising, MSF Publications, Social Media

Formal Consent Copy available yes

Editor's rating ★★★ (F)

Video format h264 (Main) (avc1 / 0x31637661)

Duration 3m21s

Maximum Size 1080px × 1350px 488.53 MB

Additional Information / Shotlist Klimenko Ivan Semenovich, patient

I at once ran towards the basement. I didn’t make it in time, there was an explosion.
I didn’t manage to slip away, you see.

Svetlana, patient

I fell down and crawled to the bed. There was a sea of blood.

Yaser Kamaledin, project
coordinator

We are on the MSF medicalized train. We are on our way to
Pokrovsk in the East of Ukraine. We're going to pick some war wounded and other seriously ill patients, stabilize them on the train, and after a twenty-hour journey, we're going to disembark them in Lviv in the West of Ukraine.
Well, this train is very unique. It was developed specifically for the context here in Ukraine. We have to remember, this is still a very active conflict, where transporting a big number of patients over a large distance can be very insecure. We've been very busy since we started on the 31st of March. We've done until now 18 journeys. And this is the journey number 19.
Over those six or seven weeks we managed to evacuate 547 patients, including 78 orphans who were evacuated from an orphanage.

Doctor Yaroslav Vodolag

“Metronidazole in the night, no antibiotics. Now you can do metrozole
and infuse evenly 2 liters, 4 bags.”

Doctor Yaroslav Vodolag

This patient had the blast injury. On the 18th of May. Unfortunately, he is deaf, so it complicates our conversation with him.
I have just asked him if he is feeling pain, if he feels comfortable, what can we do for him.

Doctor Albina Zharkova

We had different types of wounds. We saw a lot of amputations, traumatic amputations. We saw a lot of shrapnel injuries of the abdominal cavities, thoracic cavities, head injuries. Some multiple injuries of soft tissues but severe burns which can be a result of blast trauma. We saw everything, bullet trauma and so on.

Klimenko Ivan Semenovich, patient

I remember everything. I’ve heard ringing in my ears, dust was everywhere.
I was knocked off again and my leg was twisted, just like that.
It was horrifying, of course. When they were shooting, the house kept shaking, everything buzzed.
We could not understand, from where and to where things were flying… It was horrifying.

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