A specially equipped eight-car medical train run by Doctors Without Borders/Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF) completed its first journey across Ukraine on April 26, carrying 26 patients from Zaporizhzhia and Dnipro in the country’s war-torn east to hospitals in safer areas in the west. Most of these patients required post-operative care following traumatic injuries.

A smaller medical train outfitted by MSF has already carried nearly 300 patients from eastern to western Ukraine since March 31. The new train includes an intensive care car and oxygen and power generators, enabling us to transfer more patients and those with more serious medical issues away from the front lines of the war. "We are very pleased to be able to bring this larger and more medicalized train into service to assist overwhelmed hospitals in the east," said Marie Burton, coordinator of MSF's medical train. "We know the needs are high because the calls keep coming in. This is a new and quite technically advanced project, never done before by MSF." Read more.