Hosted a handover of two STABNET mobile stabilisation units – modern field medical containers designed to save Ukrainian soldiers as close as possible to the front line. The equipment was handed over to the combat units of the National Guard of Ukraine – “Khartiia” and “Spartan” brigades.
STABNET is a French-Ukrainian project created to reduce the mortality rate of seriously injured people and prevent amputations caused by bacterial infections. According to Ihor Dobrovolsky, the project’s co-founder, a container system allows for the provision of first aid “at zero” as quickly as possible and in conditions close to operating. According to the project’s authors, the containers were developed in Ukraine, taking into account the best medical practices of different countries.
Project manager Damian Arri-Maren said: “Our goal is to provide skilled care as close to “zero” as possible in the right aseptic conditions. This saves lives. We created this project with the help of combat medics. And each container is improved thanks to feedback from the brigades and allows them to be used in units with different tasks, including special forces”.
The initiative was made possible with the support of the US-Ukraine Fund “Together for Ukraine”. Evelina Kurilets, an Executive Director of the Foundation, taking part in the event, said: “I am a wife of a military medic, so I know those challenges doctors face in times of war. We studied the world’s experience, but improved our solutions here, with our doctors. I believe that soon Ukraine will share its experience with the world”.
Although the presented stabstations look the same, they are designed for different tasks.
One of the STABNET stations is a two-seater one and it has a unique lighting system. These improvements were made by paramedic Yulia Payevska. So “Tyra” personally accepted her personalised container, and from now on it will be used by the medics of “Khartiia” on the frontline.
The other one, handed over to the Spartan brigade, will be used in the Pokrovsk sector. The head of the unit’s medical service said: “This station will allow us to speed up assistance, ensure asepsis, and most importantly, preserve limbs and transfer fighters for further evacuation in better condition”.
Ihor Shcherbakov, a representative of the Medical Forces of the Armed Forces of Ukraine, summed up: “Modern military medicine is a separate front. STABNET is an example of how approaches are changing, how Ukrainian medics are implementing the best international practices and preserving the most valuable thing – the lives of our soldiers”.
The event ended with a visit to the museum exhibition “...beyond the borders of our native land”, which tells about the events of the Kursk Defence Operation of the Ukrainian Defence Forces and the centuries-old history of Ukrainian colonisation and presence on the territory that is a part of the aggressor state now.
The transferred stabstations have already been sent to combat positions. They will help in the fight for the lives of the defenders where every second counts. The War Museum not only documents the realities of the current war, but also acts as an active volunteer hub to help the army.
