EMERGENCY Ngo has been in Ukraine since 2024, where many healthcare facilities have been destroyed, damaged, or converted for military use, and where doctors, surgeons, and nurses have fled abroad or been conscripted to serve in military hospitals. In the Donetsk and Kharkiv regions, among the hardest hit by the war, it has renovated a series of clinics and provided prefabricated buildings for healthcare. It has hired and trained staff already employed in the National Health System. It has also trained a female team of community workers to provide basic home healthcare to a population that has remained isolated (the elderly, people with disabilities, and particularly vulnerable people, especially women), "collateral" and invisible victims of the ongoing conflict that has caused two million deaths and nearly seven million refugees. It is thanks to these community workers that we have been able to enter the homes of those left behind just a few kilometers from the front or in territories that were occupied and later liberated, and to whom we wish to give a voice and a profile.
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