New hub in Poland: EU sets up evacuation center for Ukrainians

The number of wounded people in Ukraine is growing every day.

New hub in Poland: EU sets up evacuation center for Ukrainians

The number of wounded people in Ukraine is growing every day. At the same time, chronically ill people can be cared for more and more poorly due to the ongoing war. The EU has therefore opened an evacuation center in Poland. From there, patients are to be flown to other countries.

The EU has set up a hub in Poland for the evacuation of patients from the war-torn Ukraine. The people are to be cared for there after their arrival from Ukraine before they are taken to hospitals in other European countries, as the EU Commission announced in Brussels. The center is located near the town of Rzeszow, which is not far from the Ukrainian border and has an airport.

The facility is part of an EU program that has brought more than 1,100 Ukrainian patients to 18 European countries, including Germany, for treatment since March. According to the information, there are two medical evacuation flights per week, carried out by Norway.

The number of wounded people in Ukraine is growing every day, said the EU Commissioner for Crisis Management, Janez Lenarcic, at the opening of the hub. "At the same time, vital treatments for chronically ill patients can no longer be guaranteed due to the destruction of health facilities. We cannot abandon these people."

In addition to injured civilians, it is also about caring for soldiers and chronically ill patients who no longer received the treatment they needed due to the war. The EU is thus increasing its on-site assistance "to relieve the health systems in Ukraine, Poland, Moldova and Slovakia," the commission said.