The Netherlands hands over a mobile hospital to border guards

7 July, 2023 Field hospital from the Netherlands for Ukrainian border guards, July 2023. Photo credits: Luhansk border guard detachment Ukrainian border guards have received a mobile hospital from the Netherlands.

The State Border Guard Service of Ukraine reports. The hospital is equipped with everything necessary to provide emergency medical care to the wounded and injured. The border guards emphasize that this is a key element for providing assistance to victims in the areas of hostilities and strengthening the treatment and evacuation capabilities of the medical service.

A mobile hospital from the Netherlands, July 2023.

Photo credits: Luhansk Border Squad

The hospital will be handed over to the border detachment in the zone of active hostilities with the Russian invaders. It has modern equipment and this will speed up the provision of emergency medical aid to Ukrainian defenders near the front line.

A mobile hospital from the Netherlands, July 2023. Photo credits: Luhansk Border Squad

Ukrainian military medics have already passed theoretical and practical trainings, during which they practiced the deployment and use of the equipment of the mobile hospitals.

"Thanks to our Dutch partners, today we received the equipment for the mobile hospital. It can work in autonomous mode thanks to the presence of solar batteries in the armored capsules," noted the head of the Department of Health Protection of the State Border Guard Service of Ukraine, Brigadier General of the Medical Service Mykhailo Karnaukh.

He added that the mobile hospital included a surgery room, X-ray, anesthesia and respiratory equipment, as well as a laboratory.

Interior of the modules of a mobile hospital from the Netherlands for Ukrainian border guards, July 2023. Photo credits: Luhansk Border Detachment

Karnaukh also noted that modern equipment would speed up diagnosis and the provision of emergency medical care to Ukrainian defenders. This is not the first time that the Netherlands, both independently and in cooperation with other countries, has transferred mobile hospitals to Ukraine.

Last November, it became known that the Netherlands would provide three modern field hospitals for the National Guard of Ukraine. It was likely done in cooperation with other countries.

The Dutch field hospital in Ukraine. March 2022.

Photo credits: Medical Forces Command of the Armed Forces of Ukraine

Also, at the end of March 2022, a field hospital handed over by the decision of the government of the Kingdom of the Netherlands was deployed in Ukraine.

It is intended for the treatment and rehabilitation of wounded military personnel and temporarily displaced persons.