In Mykolaiv

​Mykolaiv,

We made it to Mykolaiv after 9 hours on the road.  We had enough time to eat and get ready for the clinic the next day.   I won’t use the names of the villages in which we hold clinics.  The Russians monitor all social media posts in Ukraine, and they monitor telephone communications.  If they can identify a location, they can subject the village (and us) to drone attacks.  We are at the outer range of the more sophisticated Russian first-person-view drones, so we need to be careful. 

We will conduct 6 clinics in these villages, seeing 50-60 patients a day.  Our role in the clinics is to provide the primary care that is denied to the population due to the disruption of medical supplies, destruction of clinic buildings, and the lack of local medical providers.  In many conflict zones, more people die from disruption of primary care than from kinetic injuries.  Heart attacks, strokes, and pneumonia kill more people than bullets or shell fragments.  Global Care Force is stepping in to fill that primary care gap. 

Thanks for supporting us.  Please pray for all the people affected by this unjust war.

Rick

 

Team  arriving at a village between Kherson and Mykolaiv