An integrated medical - logistic intervention scale up in support to the most war affected area of Ukraine The proposed project aims at ensuring qualified and free of charge medical integrated assistance to the war victims living in the most affected war-torn areas. The proposal integrates and completes the approved project UHF21725 by extending the geographical coverage of the activities and in the meanwhile by strengthening the support to the local partners. CUAMM proposes an integrated approach focusing on both health service delivery and logistics activities, ensuring from one side the constant flow of drugs and consumables to local partners while from the other the support to selected health facilities of logistic and practical needs, in order to guarantee to the population the timely and life-saving access to health treatments. This is meant to strengthen and already existing partnership with local implementing partners.
CUAMM considers war victims, not only the war wounded patients, but in general all the vulnerable people affected by the hostilities, representing the beneficiaries to this project. The activities of the project, indeed, aims at covering the necessities of patients that need EMS services, the necessities of those who need access to quality primary healthcare (both mobile and fixed) including treatment and management of C-19 and chronic patients (including HIV and TB) and finally the necessities of people needing lifesaving sexual and reproductive health. During a war like the one in Ukraine, that left in only two months 15.7 million people in urgent need of humanitarian assistance and protection, it is crucial adopting an extensive and integrated approach, to cover the gaps and support the population. An approach that comprehends logistic support to cope with the disruption of the supply chain, support to fixed health facilities through medical supplies and personnel to support the public system in the effort to respond to the population needs and finally support to the referral system to respond to the humanitarian imperative to reduce as much as possible preventable deaths. As for the previous project, this proposal will be implemented in close cooperation with the local authorities and local counterparts. VRB will remain the implementing partners, covering the transport of materials to fixed health facilities and patients from war torn areas to more stable ones to receive secondary and/or tertiary health treatments. CUAMM and VRB will work in close cooperation with the local authorities and the humanitarian coordination mechanisms, ensuring the gaps’ cover and avoiding duplication of services and/or interventions.
The decision to scale up the approved project UHF 21725 derived from a direct request of the local authorities of Dnipro. The major of the city, evaluating the difficulties of the system to deal with the increasing needs of the population and studying the collaboration between CUAMM and VRB, decided to ask the same kind of support for its city and region. Dnipro represents the first “safe harbor” closest to the frontline and in the past few weeks the health facilities registered a rise in the number of trauma patients and war victims. To provide assistance as close as possible to people in need, CUAMM decided to geographically extend its intervention.