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A ceasefire let MSF bring three months of medicines to Kherson's frontline villages
During a temporary ceasefire in parts of Ukraine’s Kherson region from Oct. 27 to Nov. 1, Doctors Without Borders (MSF) teams delivered a three-month supply of essential medicines to Muzykivka, Petrivka and Bohdanivka, three villages of about 4,000 people up to 13 kilometres from the frontline. MSF had suspended visits there because of the security risks and had been advising local health workers remotely.
What happened
A temporary ceasefire in parts of Ukraine’s Kherson region ran from Oct. 27 to Nov. 1. MSF teams used it to deliver a three-month supply of essential medicines to Muzykivka, Petrivka and Bohdanivka, villages under Ukrainian government control.
The villages
About 4,000 people live there, up to 13 km from the frontline. MSF says drone attacks make medicines, food and supplies hard to get. It had suspended visits and was advising local health workers remotely.
What’s next
MSF says its mobile teams keep working along the frontline in the Kherson and Mykolaiv regions, with remote consultations where they can’t go. For a scan, villagers still travel to Kherson city, which a local lab assistant calls “very dangerous.”
“Painkillers, antibiotics and medicines for chronic conditions.” Vladyslav Butskyi, MSF medical activity manager, on what the teams brought