In touch and online with Ukraine’s mobile health care units
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Maria Korchma, aged 70, needed health care after being relocated from her home in Donetsk. She was examined in Pidvysoke village, Kharkiv region, by a mobile emergency primary health care unit operated by the Ukrainian Red Cross, a WHO partner.
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Nurse Lilia Solovyova, herself an internally displaced person from the Lugansk region, measures a patient’s blood pressure. Cardiovascular diseases are one of the top three causes of poor health among people living in conflict-affected areas and internally displaced people.
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Khrystyna Skrypka and her mother Anna were offered routine check-ups by the mobile emergency primary health care unit team. This is one way in which internally displaced people can stay in touch with a family doctor, and the team can follow up vaccination status and bring it up to date.
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Mobile emergency primary health care unit clinicians use hand-held devices to ensure that they adhere to protocols, and for follow up and referrals. The tablets provide access to web-based, real-time, patient-centred information and support the team in making decisions.
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With financial support from donors (ECHO, Canada, the United Nations Central Emergency Relief Fund, Estonia and Israel), WHO has provided mobile emergency primary health care units specially equipped for the needs of internally displaced people and their receiving communities. The information collected by the teams is critical in forecasting and procuring medicines.