In the Donbass, the sirens that alert the population to potential aerial bombardments are sounding more and more often. A good part of the population has evacuated from the Donetsk and Luhansk regions, but many people have chosen to stay at home, especially the elderly. In Slavyansk, for example, in the Donetsk region, a few kilometers from the front, these people have great difficulty in obtaining food, water, petrol and medicine. Reporting during a much-awaited delivery of medicine to the city’s main hospital.
With our special correspondents in Sloviansk, Mary Normand and Julien Boileau
Team rat race in Slavyansk’s No. 1 hospital. The nurse tries to calm the crowd, a list of patients in hand. All hope to get valuable tablets, treatment for thyroid failure and thyroid cancer, says Lyubov. All the pharmacies in Slaviansk have closed, she went around to all the hospitals to find some. ” I have an autoimmune disease. I can’t live without this medicine. There, I have for half a month. »
Patients are usually notified of deliveries by SMS. Irina, she received nothing; she arrives too late. Even though she needs this medicine, and the fighting is getting closer, she refuses to leave her town. ” My husband is buried here, she explains. So I’m staying here with my son. »
It is Enrique Menendes who organizes the distribution with the NGO Responsible Citizens, thanks to European donations. ” The regional authorities have not planned how to deliver medicines to the people who have decided to stay here, he said. They ordered the evacuation, they evacuated everyone and the pharmacists too, and the people who stayed here do not receive any support. Here, 133 people were waiting for him and his tour includes three hospitals.
