It's a Medical Workers day.

The Medical Worker Day is a professional holiday of medical staff in Ukraine. Special thanks to military medics who are saving lives in the war zone, Eastern Ukraine.

Photo: medic of 92nd Mechanized Brigade of Ukrainian Armed Forces named after otaman Sirko.

Simplemente María. 92d brigade.
When mobilization is announced in your country, you jut join the army at the call of your heart and do what you can. This is exactly what this nice woman from a small village in the Odesa region did in 2015. One and a half months of training at the Shirokoy Lan training ground, and until recently a good housewife and mother of three, is going to the war zone.

"I was not a medic before the war. I mastered the profession of a combat medic and shooter-nurse in combat conditions. Field conditions did not frighten me. It was worse to see the suffering of our soldiers. We often had to evacuate our soldiers and it was very painful when we didn't manage to get them out alive," says pani Maria.

Once it happened that Mraia herself needed an evacuation. Her vehicle caught fire while moving, and while she was getting out, her face, neck, upper torso and arms were burned. Two months later, she was back in the brigade. About plastic surgery, although there is such a possibility, she does not want to talk yet, she dreams that there will be time after the victory.

92 brigade.

The head of the medical center of the 93rd brigade named after Kholodny Yar Anatoly Chuikin.
Anattoly says: "In 2011 I graduated from Zaporizhia State Medical University. Worked as a surgeon in the 3rd city hospital of Zaporizhia. I wanted to go to war back in 2014 - it was a pity that our soldiers were dying. But my family was against it. However, I was drafted into the Armed Forces in 2017."
Anatoly served at Donestk province, abroad, then returned to Luhansk province.
"Of all the rotations I've worked in, this area is the most difficult from a tactical point of view. Therefore, we have more losses than in previous rotations.

Evacuation is also not easy - the average route here is more than 50 km. And about 30 km of them are absolute off-road. But we manage. Where the Bohdan does not pass, we can pull out either the MTLB or the Mercedes Unimog ambulance. It has a large ground clearance and good passability. But our main advantage is very well-trained doctors and combat medics. This allows us to provide specialized assistance in an ambulance. Fortunately, we did not have any deaths at the evacuation stage. Let it be so in the future."

92d Mechanized brigade.

With the military medic dog. 92d Mechanized brigade.

53 separate mechanized brigade named after Prince Volodymyr Monomakh

Today is a holiday for brave people with good hearts and skillful hands. Military medics are called to save, protect and inspire.

"With the Angels in bulletproof vests," say the soldiers of the 53rd separate mechanized brigade named after Prince Volodymyr Monomakh, - it is not scary to go into battle, because they will always save us."

Whenever possible, military medics of the 53rd separate mechanized brigade named after Prince Volodymyr Monomakh improve their professional skills in tactical medicine classes.

"Dear doctors, pharmacists, nurses and paramedics, combat medics, all representatives of the most humane profession, personnel and staff of the Operational Command "East" of the Armed Forces of Ukraine sincerely congratulates you on your professional holiday - the Day of the Medical Worker!

Thank you very much for saving the lives and health of the Ukrainian soldiers, for caring for our children, relatives and friends!"

Wishes from Operational Command "East"

Sergeant Natalia Kalinychenko is a military medic of the tank brigade.

26 artillery brigade. Training - evacuation of wounded.

The date of March 12, 2015 became one of the defining in the life of Olena Boyko - she signed a contract with the Armed Forces of Ukraine and joined the 26th Artillery Brigade named after General-Cornet Roman Dashkevych, where her husband was already serving.

Since 2015, sergeant Olena Boyko has not missed a single rotation of the brigade into the war zone in Eastern Ukraine.

Sanitary instructor of the medical company Sergeant Olena Kravchuk is in the brigade of Black Cossacks since last year. Her father and brother are military men, her mother worked in a military hospital but died in 2002.

While performing assigned tasks in the Luhansk region, Kravchuk Olena was a member of the nursing team in the town of Horske, provided evacuation of sick, injured, dead and wounded servicemen of the units bordering the settlements of Zolote, Khutohir Novny, Orikhove.

Now she wants to learn to play a violin.

The senior sergeant on pseudo Cupid is a combat medic of the mechanized battalion of the 1st separate Seversky tank brigade. Evhen was born on October 27, 1991 in the village of Kulykivka, Chernihiv region. Since 2008 he has been studying at the Chernihiv Basic Medical College, majoring in paramedics. After graduation he worked in the CRH of the village of Kulikivka. In 2017 he signed a contract and has been serving in the army ever since.

Colonel of the Medical Service Natalia Lushina, Head of the Cardiology Clinic
In 2014, as part of a medical team, she saved the lives and health of Ukrainian soldiers near Donetsk.

Major of the Medical Service Oleksiy Kravets is a senior doctor of the Department of Sanitary and Epidemiological Department of the 108th Regional Sanitary and Epidemiological Department of the Eastern Region.

As part of the medical company of one of the combat brigades of the Armed Forces of Ukraine, he managed to master the organization of medical support in the units located in the war zone.

Specially for the Medical worker day , - the video of the ArmyInform News Agency, showing the training task on evacuation of the injured serviceman during the "Rapid Trident" training exercises.