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The Czech government’s humanitarian aid program MEDEVAC provides medical assistance to people in need the world over. In war-torn Ukraine it is literally helping to save lives.
Last year, 16-month-old Yulia was close to death. With burns on 60 percent of her body, she lay in a hospital in Lviv where doctors were unable to help her. Her life was saved by a complex emergency aid effort organized by the Czech Interior Ministry’s humanitarian program MEDEVAC. The aid operation involved dozens of people in Ukraine, Poland and Czechia.
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Authors: Daniela Lazarová, Ľubomír Smatana