The Icelandic Parliament has supported the proposal to transfer a field hospital for the Ukrainian military, Prime Minister of Iceland Katrin Jacobsdottir said.
“All parties in the Icelandic parliament have united in a proposal for Iceland to hand over a field hospital to Ukraine,” she tweeted Monday.
“We remain committed to supporting the Ukrainian people: this gesture is a symbol of our continued solidarity,” summarized Katrin Jacobsdottir.
The field hospital provided to Ukraine jointly by Estonia, Norway and the Netherlands as part of the third aid package has arrived in Ukraine, the Estonian Defence Investment Centre (ECDI) has reported.
It is noted that Norway and the Netherlands donated 7.8 million euros to send the field hospital to support Ukraine’s medical capacity.
“We transferred to Ukraine half of our Defense Forces’ existing field hospital, consisting of eight specialized medical containers, including a surgical, intensive care, intensive care, treatment and intermediate modules, medical storage, sterilization module and resource module,” said Kadi Kai Kollo, field hospital project manager at ECDI.
She noted that in addition to the usual parts of the hospital complex, storage containers, living module tents and a sanitary module with showers, toilets and washers and dryers were transferred to Ukraine.
In addition, ten MAN All Terrain Vehicles were provided by the Defense Forces to transport the wounded. The aid package also includes consumables for the hospital and training for the Ukrainian hospital team.
According to the ECDI, a trained team can deploy the hospital in about an hour. The speed of deployment of the field hospital provides mobility, which is very important for relocating medical care in a military conflict. Considering that about 950 medical facilities have been destroyed in Ukraine, according to various reports, such assistance is critical.
Under normal conditions, the field hospital employs about 15 people, and during the training period, it served about 60 people a day. The donated hospital will be used by Ukrainian army medics. To date, the two previously donated field hospitals have helped approximately 10,000 wounded.
The donated hospital was manufactured by the Estonian company Semetron, which designed the field hospital according to Ukrainian conditions. For example, heating and cooling equipment was modified for the Ukrainian climate, and tunnels connecting equipment and containers were upgraded.
The field hospital project was supported by the Netherlands and Norway for 7.8 million euros (3.5 million and 4.3 million respectively).
“The training was bilateral – we teach them, and the Ukrainian medical workers also teach us. Based on the experience from previous donations, we have already made changes to the training of our field hospital teams. In addition to technical training, we have added discussions on the possibilities of using the hospital in different configurations, for patients of different profiles, and the possibility of quickly integrating civilian sector specialists into the military hospitals. These lessons provided the Estonian Defence Forces’ medical department with a great opportunity to further develop the infrastructure of field hospitals and revise previous recommendations,” said Hele-Rith Lille, head of support and development at the Centre for War and Disaster Medicine of the Defence Forces.
The third field hospital for the treatment of military and displaced persons has been deployed on the territory of Lviv region, the press service of Lviv Regional Military Administration has reported.
“The mobile medical facility is designed for 50 beds and it was transferred to Ukraine by decision of the government of the Kingdom of the Netherlands,” the Administration said.
The hospital includes: an operating room, resuscitation beds, an intensive care unit, an X-ray diagnostics unit, a clinical laboratory with a blood bank, and an oxygen concentrator. The hospital is also equipped with an air filtration and purification system.
As stated in the message of Lviv Regional Military Administration, the hospital can work offline on a diesel generator, and with stocks of medicines and consumables for full load operation for a year.
At present, the formation of a staff of specialists continues. The hospital will employ doctors who have left the front-line areas, as well as doctors from Canada and the United States.
“Now they are staffing the hospital, and in connection with this, they have not yet started accepting patients,” Head of Lviv Regional Military Administration Maksym Kozytsky said.
This is the third field hospital deployed on the territory of Lviv region since the beginning of the Russian-Ukrainian war.
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A field hospital manufactured in Estonia with the financial support of Germany has opened in Ukraine, the Estonian Ministry of Defense has said.
“The military field hospital sent to Ukraine is now working as intended. This small and mobile hospital can quickly get to where it is needed. Made in Estonia with German financial support,” the ministry said on Saturday.
Israeli doctors have set up a field hospital in Lviv region to help Ukrainians, Ukrainian Foreign Minister Dmytro Kuleba has said.
“Grateful to the State of Israel for setting up the ShiningStar field hospital in Lviv region. I thank its team of Israeli physicians and paramedics for their important humanitarian mission and tireless work to help Ukrainian men, women, and children at this difficult time,” Kuleba wrote on Friday.
On Tuesday, Israel will open a field hospital in the city of Mostyska, Lviv region, Israeli Ambassador to Ukraine Michael Brodsky said.
“Israel will become the first country to open a field hospital in Ukraine. The official opening ceremony will take place today in the city of Mostyka, Lviv region,” Brodsky said on Twitter on Tuesday.
