Surgical Instruments
What: Financing surgical instruments and medicines
Who: Forward Surgical Teams of the 95th Assault Brigade (Zaporizhzhya), 15th Mobile Border Guards (Sumy) and 59th Military Hospital (Pokrovsk)
Deadline: 23.05.2026
Value: approx. 6.200€
Strategic Purpose of the Project:
Help Ukrainian medics save the lives of the servicemembers who receive critical injuries while defending Ukraine and Europe.
Military and medical context:
Forward surgical teams (FST), commonly known in Ukraine as “stabilisation units,” are mobile military medical teams that perform emergency surgery close to the line of combat for soldiers with life-threatening injuries. Their goal is to stabilise the patient so they can be safely transported to a higher-level medical facility for further care. These teams often set up operating rooms in any available nearby buildings from scratch and work discreetly, as they are high-priority targets of the enemy.
Field hospitals are larger military medical facilities located in frontline cities, with broader surgical and diagnostic capabilities. Injured soldiers from stabilisation units are transferred there for further urgent treatment.
FST and field hospitals mainly face two challenges:
1. Large numbers of patients
An overflow of patients means medical equipment wears out quickly and must be frequently replaced or kept in reserve.
2. The severity of injuries
Severe injuries often require medicines or supplies that are rare and very expensive, but if available on demand, they can make the difference between life and death.
Charitable initiatives help address both problems, supporting the critical work of such frontline medical units.
Pictures from the 59th Military Hospital, Dnipro region (Pokrovsk frontline), 2026
Project Description:
The project supports frontline surgical teams of the 95th and 15th units with urgently needed surgical instruments used in emergency trauma care, including vascular, intestinal, suturing, and retractor instruments, as well as a video laryngoscope for precise airway management during critical interventions.
In addition, the 59th Mobile Hospital requires lifesaving medicines used to treat severe bleeding in critically wounded patients. This includes Fibryga and Octaplex, two advanced clotting medications used when massive blood loss causes the body to lose its ability to form stable blood clots. Even after wounds are surgically closed, internal bleeding can continue if the clotting process fails. Fibryga restores fibrinogen, a key protein needed to build blood clots, while Octaplex restores essential clotting factors that activate the clotting process. Together, they help medics stop otherwise uncontrollable bleeding during the most critical moments after severe trauma.
These medicines are especially vital in cases of massive hemorrhage, internal injuries, and situations requiring large blood transfusions, where the body’s natural clotting ability becomes critically impaired.
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