AMDA Emergency Relief #56: Crisis in Ukraine, 13 May 2026

Country: Ukraine Source: Association of Medical Doctors of Asia Please refer to the attached file. Activity Report: MedSpot (Hungary) - December 2025 - March 2026 “We are now visiting an evacuation center in Chop, a city known for the hub railway station in the westernmost part of Ukraine. Believe it or not, the next stop on the western side is Záhony in Hungary. Do you see how closely these two are located?” It was right at the time whenDr. András Spányik, who heads Hungarian medical organization MedSpot, was delivering mobile clinic services in Ukraine when this conversation took place with an AMDA representative during an online meeting. Based in Budapest, the Hungarian organization has been partnering with AMDA for quite some time, supporting Ukrainian evacuees since the outset of the humanitarian crisis. Mobile clinic services have been one of the organization’s core activities, in which its team visits several evacuation centers in western Ukraine for two days in a month. Because the regular online meeting with AMDA coincided with MedSpot’s mobile clinic, its nurses and staff members were seen busily caring for people at the shelter over the computer screen. Before the crisis began, Chop’s population was around 13,000. However, it increased to approximately 18,000 after about 4,500 people fled to the city for their safety due to the conflict. Currently, there are two evacuation centers in the city, each accommodating 75 people. At the time of the conversation, the team was at one of the two shelters, visiting there for the very first time. According to Dr. Spányik, although Chop has not experienced any direct military attacks, the financial burden on the city has been increasing since it accepted a large number of evacuees in such a short period. For this reason, MedSpot’s...

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