Characteristics of Medical Evacuation by Train in Ukraine, 2022.

ABSTRACT:

Importance

The 2022 war in Ukraine severely affected access to health care for patients in the conflict-affected regions and limited options for medical evacuation. Air transport, a common method of medical evacuation in war zones, was unsafe due to the conflict of 2 modernized military forces that were in possession of aircraft and surface-to-air weapons; therefore, Médecins Sans Frontières, in collaboration with the Ukrainian railway company and Ukrainian health agencies, addressed this by initiating medical evacuation via medically customized trains.

Objective

To describe the implementation of medical evacuation trains aimed at improving the access to health care for war-affected patients.

Design, setting, and participants

This case series describes the remodeling

SUBMITTER: Walravens S 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC10290241 | biostudies-literature | 2023 Jun

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature