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Eastern Ukraine: accessing conflict areas to provide assistance is “a major challenge”
Olena Peicheva is a field officer for WHO in Ukraine. Olena was born in Luhansk, a town in eastern Ukraine, and now works 20 kilometres from the frontline of the conflict. A medical doctor, Olena works with WHO partners to provide disease prevention and health care to her fellow citizens.
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“We don’t have enough medicines to treat our patients”
Since the conflict in eastern Ukraine started in 2014, the city of Kramatorsk has become the temporary administrative centre of the Donetsk region. Its oncology centre now serves almost 1 million people, explains Dr Oleskandr Ptitsa, Chief Medical Doctor.
