Mission to Ukraine in December 2022
Daryna TokmachovaThe objective of this mission was to accompany a convoy of ambulances provided by AMC France-Ukraine and to assess the situation on the ground following the bombing of energy infrastructures and meet local stakeholders. It also made it possible to frame the deliveries of vehicles and electrical equipment (generators, transformers, energy stations) and to launch the project to deliver 4X4 ambulances for the pyrotechnic teams involved in humanitarian demining.
The central photo illustrates the visit to a point of invincibility in Ukraine by Arnaud Péricard, Mayor of Saint-Germain-en-Laye (Yvelines), Laurent Marcangeli, Member of the National Assembly, Meri Akopyan, Deputy Minister of the Interior of Ukraine, Nathalie Loiseau, Member of the European Parliament, Edouard Philippe, Mayor of Le Havre, Diana Dols, Director of Operations of AMC France-Ukraine, Etienne de Poncins, French Ambassador to Ukraine, Naïma Moutchou, Vice-President of the National Assembly. © Ministry of the Interior of Ukraine.
It was also an opportunity to visit, with a delegation of French mayors and elected officials, one of the 12,000 “points of invincibility” set up throughout Ukraine. These places, where anyone can come to warm up, recharge a mobile phone, access the Internet or obtain medical assistance, have become the symbol of the resistance of the Ukrainian population.
During this visit, Diana Dols, Director of Operations of AMC France-Ukraine, announced an upcoming delivery of humanitarian convoys carried out jointly with the town halls of French municipalities. The contacts with the Ministry of Emergency Situations of Ukraine, established during this visit and the discussions that followed made it possible to launch the project of medical transport assistance to the pyrotechnic teams carrying out mine clearance missions in the liberated territories.
Finally, this field mission also served to carry out a few control visits to the hospitals receiving humanitarian aid to verify the use of the equipment provided. A major center for the medical care of war wounded, the Kyiv hospital is one of the health establishments visited on this occasion.
In 2022, AMC France-Ukraine participated in the modernization of the rooms in the infectious diseases, surgery and traumatology departments of this hospital. The establishment also received medical vehicles and a large delivery of medicines, dressings and specialized equipment.
This visit not only allowed us to see in situ how the aid provided was being used, but also to provide hospital staff with external bone fixation kits, donated by Poitiers University Hospital and the Maincare healthcare association.
