Jasmine had heart issues in Ukraine, and her family chose Hungary for treatment because it was safer. The trip was tough, but a hospital in Budapest saved her. Now, she's doing better with the help of Dr. Beáta Gyömörei, and Hungary's healthcare is giving hope to families like hers. Read more here. 

Discussions with various WHO/Europe programme directors also included primary health care in Ukraine during and after the war, work in the area of health financing, the importance of tracking and responding to outbreaks of infectious diseases, and people’s growing health needs and priorities encompassing chronic diseases, the necessity of strengthening mental health and psychosocial support services, and the importance of rehabilitation for Ukrainian patients and provision of assistive technologies. As well, there is a need to nurture and support the country’s exhausted health and care workforce, including through the introduction and implementation of innovative digital health approaches that help reach and monitor patients in remote areas.

In Kharkiv the bombardment began on the first day of the war, February 24. Health workers moved their patients, their beds, their equipment and themselves down to the bomb shelters built in the basements decades before during the cold war era.