Humanitarian dimension
The care that does not show on a scan
By 2024 the largest untreated health need in Ukraine was psychological, and building a service for it from a system that never had one is a…
Humanitarian dimension
Displacement, civilian infrastructure, health, and the human accounting that sits underneath every economic figure.
Humanitarian dimension
Humanitarian work in its third year, and what changed in it
By mid-2024 humanitarian assistance to Ukraine had stopped looking like an emergency response and started looking like a system. That shift is worth describing.
Humanitarian dimension
Medical evacuation as a European system
One of the most effective arrangements of this war has almost no public profile: a mechanism that moves patients from Ukrainian hospitals into beds across Europe.
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Evacuation as a standing operation
By 2024 evacuation from settlements near the front had become a routine, organised process rather than an emergency — transport, reception, documents, accommodation, and the difficult…
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Keeping ordinary medicine going
War does not suspend cancer, diabetes or childhood immunisation. Maintaining routine healthcare has been a quieter and larger task than trauma care.
Humanitarian dimension
Repairing a roof before December
Humanitarian assistance in the third winter of the war concentrated on something specific and unglamorous: making damaged buildings weatherproof before the frost, because a repaired roof…
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Mental health, treated as public health
A country where almost everyone has been displaced, bereaved, bombed or waiting for news needs mental health provision on a scale no health system was built…
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When the water goes
The destruction of a dam in June 2023 created a humanitarian problem that most responses are not designed for: not shortage of food, but shortage of…
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Kakhovka: water, and everything that depends on it
The destruction of the Kakhovka dam in June 2023 was a flood emergency for a few days and a water supply emergency for years. The response…
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Rehabilitation centres built to a standard that did not exist here before
By 2023 the rehabilitation and prosthetics capacity being built in Ukraine had moved past improvisation. New centres opened designed around a model — surgery, prosthetics, physiotherapy…
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A hospital needs power before it needs anything else
In the first months of 2023 the most valuable medical donation to Ukraine was not medicine. It was generators, fuel and the equipment to keep a…
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Supporting the towns that took people in
A town of thirty thousand that receives eight thousand displaced people has a water system, a school and a clinic sized for thirty thousand. Supporting the…
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