A bipartisan group of 17 members of Congress is calling on the U.S to send help to Ukraine's strained healthcare system.
"We ask you to deploy several military field hospital centers to the Polish-Ukrainian border region and authorize U.S. medical personnel to care for the sick and wounded fighters and refugees and third country nationals crossing into Poland," the letter reads.
Over a dozen members of Congress have called on the U.S. to open field hospitals at the Polish border in Ukraine. Here, a Ukrainian soldier walks through a waiting room at a military hospital in Zaporizhzhia on April 18, 2022.The letter recommends that the field hospitals work with Polish authorities as well as humanitarian organizations, like theThe lawmakers also suggested the U.S. equip Ukrainian first responders and defense forces with armored.
"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," saidAs of April 21, the Office of the U.N. High Commissioner for Human Rights determined 5,264 Ukrainian civilian casualties have been recorded.
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