Lawmakers want US to set up field hospitals for Ukraine

[Omaha Steve]

Source: AP

By NOMAAN MERCHANT

WASHINGTON (AP) — A bipartisan group of U.S. lawmakers is calling on the Biden administration to establish field hospitals near Ukraine’s border and ramp up medical support for what’s expected to be a monthslong war of attrition waged by Russia.

Forces aligned with Ukraine have suffered thousands of casualties since Russia invaded on Feb. 24. And Russian strikes on hospitals and other non-military targets have killed large numbers of civilians and strained Ukraine’s ability to care for sick and wounded people. The Associated Press has documented three dozen Russian attacks on medical facilities, hitting medics, patients and even newborns.

More than a dozen House members wrote Friday to Secretary of State Antony Blinken and Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin asking for the U.S. to fill gaps in Ukraine’s medical infrastructure. The steps recommended by the group include opening field hospitals in eastern Poland, providing Ukraine with armored ambulances and taking some of the sick and wounded to the U.S. military’s Landstuhl regional hospital in western Germany.

“We’re going to have to really step up in a really big way to relieve the combat wounded and civilian casualties that will be coming in the weeks and months ahead,” said Rep. Jason Crow, a Colorado Democrat who recently visited Poland and other countries in the region.



FILE - Ambulance paramedics move a civilian wounded in shelling onto a stretcher to a maternity hospital converted into a medical ward in Mariupol, Ukraine, March 2, 2022. A bipartisan group of U.S. lawmakers is calling on the Biden administration to establish field hospitals near Ukraine's border and ramp up medical support for what's expected to be a months-long war of attrition waged by Russia (AP Photo/Evgeniy Maloletka, File)


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[ripcord]

1. This has my official seal of approval n/t

[mopinko]

2. yes. send the uss hope to the black sea.

i cant figure out why putler seems to be able to operate in international waters, w no international pushback at.all.
i rly think sending in a hospital ship, w escorts, would draw a line and fuck up the plans.

[Beastly Boy]

3. Yes! Israel can't do it alone.

https://www.timesofisrael.com/horowitz-blasts-war-crimes-on-visit-to-israeli-field-hospital-in-ukraine/amp/

[IronLionZion]

4. Any chance to send hospital ships for the coastal areas?

Eastern Ukraine is in need of lots of help at the risk that Russia will "accidentally" bomb clearly marked hospitals

[Martin68]

5. I can guarantee you those field hospitals will be bombed.

[ck4829]

6. K&R