Since the beginning of military actions, most doctors have left Izium. Only two dozen doctors of the Izium emergency medical care department remained in the city, which was under occupation, and they dared to work under the gun of the Russian assault riffles.
«The more [missile] fly-ins there were, the more shellings there were, the more you wanted to leave, of course. But when you came to the sick or wounded between fly-ins, you understood that they depended only on you, and it all was gone. Somewhere there were shootings, somewhere there were screams, it means somebody's wounded, somebody's got to be rescued», says senior paramedic Serhii Botsman, who gathered an ambulance team around him.
In March, when the city was under heavy shellings, and the roads were covered with debris, the ambulance could not pass and medics walked on foot, went down to the basements and asked who needed help. Gradually, the radius of help was increased, running around the city with gurneys and collecting the wounded from the most remote corners of Izium. Later, they were able to repair vehicles damaged by shelling and transport the sick and wounded to a makeshift operating room set up in the basement of the hospital.
This is a story about Izium medics who continued to save civilians during the eight months of occupation, refusing to take off their chevrons with the Ukrainian coat of arms.
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