Within two days, five American doctors together with Ukrainian colleagues within the framework of the Global Care Force humanitarian project provided the necessary free medical care to more than one hundred and sixty residents and IDPs in four hard-to-reach de-occupied villages of Beryslav district, Kherson region.

The volunteers of the foreign medical mission conducted professional diagnostics of the patients' diseases and distributed the necessary medicines, while the military personnel of the Defence Intelligence of Ukraine provided security and escort.

Global Care Force has been working in Ukraine since the beginning of the full-scale invasion of russia: every month, volunteer doctors from the United States, Canada, Australia and New Zealand come to our country and provide medical care to thousands of patients in different regions for two weeks.

Such assistance is especially important for Ukrainians who live in hard-to-reach communities in the de-occupied territories and do not have sufficient access to hospitals in cities.

“Patients come [to see volunteer doctors] because they know they will be provided with help and medicines. This also means a lot. And it's free! Most of the patients here are pensioners,” said Olga Popova, head of an outpatient clinic and family doctor in one of the villages in Kherson region where foreign volunteer doctors worked.

Another important aspect of the field medical missions is a significant reduction in the workload of medical personnel in the frontline areas.

“It helps a lot, because we have one doctor here, and there are many of us. She gets tired of us every day, because the population has a lot of different diseases. The psychological burden on people is also felt, there are a lot of patients, thank you very much for coming,” said patient Svitlana, a resident of a village in Kherson region.