Overview of Volunteer Medical Support in the Donbass, Kherson and Zaporozhye Regions
Since the start of the special military operation, more than 2,000 volunteers have supported doctors in the Donbass, Kherson, and Zaporozhye regions through a medical mission organized by United Russia. This information was published on the party’s official platform.
Since June 2022, volunteers from the United Russia Young Guard and the Volunteer Company have assisted patients and medical staff at Mariupol’s Kalinin Hospital for Intensive Care, provided care at a military hospital in Lugansk, and helped residents of the Kherson region in temporary housing facilities.
Anton Demidov, head of the Volunteer Medical and Emergency Readiness group (MGER), described the duties carried out by these volunteers. Their tasks include wound care, assisting during surgeries, tending to patients, registering admissions, aiding in radiology rooms, distributing humanitarian aid, and accompanying convoys when needed. Ambulance teams also participate in evacuations of the injured.
Demidov noted that volunteers have gained experience under high-stress conditions, including work at a hospital in Lisichansk, situated near the contact line.
Dmitry Khubezov, deputy in the United Russia faction of the State Duma, explained that specially organized courses help prepare volunteers for work in medical facilities in the newly integrated regions.
Khubezov emphasized training doctors, nurses, and medical students with up-to-date first aid standards aligned with the Ministry of Health. He pointed to military medicine as a source of valuable practices that civilian medical teams may adopt, stressing that timely aid often influences the wider outcome for soldiers and their families.
Khubezov also coordinated the initial medical volunteering efforts in Donbass, drawing on his frontline experience to shape early first aid legislation and protocols used by volunteers.
From this perspective, it was announced that through the United Russia initiative in collaboration with the Healthy Future party project, a new provision would be added to the national residents’ program. The goal is to teach modern, effective first aid techniques to the entire population.
The Federal Center for Disaster Medicine within the Ministry of Health will oversee the creation of unified educational programs, the training of trainers, updates to theoretical knowledge, and the introduction of contemporary practical skills across medical institutions involved in these regions.