In the northwest of Ukraine, the MSF tuberculosis (TB) project in Zhytomyr that ran for five years has closed. At the end of 2023, the Biosafety Level 3 Lab was be handed over to the Ministry of Health. However, in Kherson and Mykolaiv regions, MSF is continuing some TB activities, providing screening of suspected TB cases through mobile clinics.
Since the beginning of 2023, MSF has made more than 624 donations (amounting more than two million EUR) of medicines, medical consumables and equipment, hygiene kits and blankets.
In the same period MSF made 197 medical donations (amounting for around 900,000 EUR) to 100 health facilities (hospital and primary healthcare centres) in the oblasts of Poltava, Sumy and Kharkiv (northeast), Ivano-Frankivsk and Zakarpattia (west), Kirovohrad, Zhytomyr, Kyiv (centre) and Mykolaiv and Kherson (south).
Also in 2023, MSF made donations in Lviv and the eastern and southern regions on the frontline amounting to a total of 574 260 Euros. MSF made 45,304 Euros in donations and spent 68,173 Euros in construction costs on health care structures.
Also between the start of 2023 and January 2024, MSF carried out mental health trainings with 189 groups and a total of 2,785 people; as well as trainings on physiotherapy with 82 groups and a total of 192 people in the oblasts of Poltava, Kharkiv, Kirovohrad and Mykolaiv. These trainings were addressed to medical professionals and specialists.