Ukraine’s medical doctors faced the novel coronavirus pandemic with the country’s healthcare system falling apart, poor conditions for treatment, low salaries, and never-ending corruption within healthcare institutions. No surprise, when the infection had just started spreading across Ukraine the healthcare workers lacked even basic protective gear. Various companies, organizations, and ordinary Ukrainians volunteered to contribute to medics’ protection.
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Ambulance paramedics wearing protective gear take a minute's break before leaving the infectious disease ward of Kyiv's Oleksandrivska Clinical Hospital on April 9, 2020.
