At the main factory of Ukraine's biggest pharmaceutical company, Darnitsa in Kyiv, about 300 employees are working despite the ongoing shelling to produce the much-needed supplies, and coordinate their distribution across the country.
Two health care workers confer in a field hospital set up by a U.S. disaster relief organization in an underground parking lot at a shopping mall near the western Ukrainian city of Lviv last week.Russia's invasion of Ukraine has driven hospitals — and medical personnel — to the point of despair. Supplies are running low, while getting care to the sick and wounded is a logistical nightmare.
"We are currently operating 24/7 ... and maintain the quality of the production to the highest standards of the pharmaceutical company, so it's very challenging and the shelling continues," he told NPR.'s A Martínez, Shymkiv said the most pressing need is for intensive care drugs like bandages, infusions, injections, anti-inflammatory drugs and painkillers.
"It's a very challenging environment to ensure delivery," said Shymkiv, who explained that the supplies are being delivered by a pool of trucks and"fearless" drivers, most of whom are volunteers or military. With the sound of shelling and gunfights now a constant, Shymkiv spoke of the"incomparable" stress for his employees, their families and ordinary citizens across the capital city and the country as a whole.
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