Nine Ukrainians flown in for treatment in Czech Republic
People were displaced from the eastern region; some were wounded in the conflict
Prague, July 14 (ČTK) — Seven Ukrainians came on board a military CASA C-295M plane to the Prague-Kbely military airport today to be treated in Prague hospitals, while another two landed at the airport in Ostrava, north Moravia, where they will be given medical care. The two who were dropped off in Ostrava were firefighters who had been burned in a refinery fire in Kyiv were dropped off.
The Czech health personnel will be in charge of seven adults and two children within the Medevac program to which the Czech Republic has repeatedly contributed.
“These are primarily the displaced Ukrainians from the eastern regions afflicted by the armed conflict who now live in the Kharkiv Region,” Gabriela Vaňková, from the Interior Ministry press department, has told the Czech News Agency.
The patients are five men and four women, accompanied by four family members.
Some of them were injured in the armed conflict, but there are also orthopedic and cardiac surgery cases.
The youngest patient was born in 2013.
They will be driven to the University Hospital in Motol, the General Teaching Hospital and the Na Bulovce Hospital (all in Prague).
Last year, the Czech Republic accepted several patients from Ukraine.
In January, the government decided to transfer some more patients to Czech hospitals within the Medevac humanitarian project.
Medical director Colonel Michal Mareček of air rescue services in Plzeň Líně supervised the transportation. He praised the flawless preparation, which was not always commonplace. “It cannot be compared to the first air conveyance of wounded Ukrainians from Majdan, when in Kyiv was ruled almost unbelievable confusion. Back then there was terrible organization. Ukrainians, however, as we have seen, have learned,” he said on the Ministry of Defense website.
Medevac mainly helps children, the elderly and women in a serious health condition. It falls under the Interior Ministry, while the foreign and defense ministries contribute to it.
Since 1993, some 210 patients from Bosnia and Herzegovina, Chechnya, Kosovo, Russia, Iraq, Afghanistan, Pakistan, Cambodia, Libya, Burma, Syria and Ukraine have been treated in Czech hospitals within the program.
The government has set aside 50 million Kč for the Medevac program this year.
ČTK with additional information from the Ministry of Defense
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