March 28: Sending a young boy to Norway
Today we went to a small village outside Chenvistzi. There are many refugees there. We worked in a very small hospital/clinic and saw over 75 patients.The highlight was meeting a [...]
March 27: The untold suffering we see
It has been an emotional and exhausting few days. We have seen many patients, several with really sad situations. A few women with cancer who had to leave their homes [...]
March 25: The stress of war on the body and soul
Oh, the stress of war on the human body and soul. Today we held so many weeping people in our arms. And people who never had high blood pressures with [...]
March 24: The painful reality of war
This beautiful child we saw in clinic today has just lost her father. He was a civilian soldier fighting for his homeland in Kyiv. This is the painful reality of [...]
March 23: Urgent need for trauma supplies and medicines
Met with the head of Ministry of Health for western Ukraine today. We met at the humanitarian distribution center where international NGOs and governments shipments come. From there volunteers sort [...]
March 22: Kindness, solidarity and compassion
A warm and sunny day today. The HOG team went across the border to Ukraine and I stayed in Romania. I spent the day buying medications, organizing medications and doing [...]