Emergency medical services in Ukraine

In Ukraine, emergency medical services are provided by the Ukrainian Emergency Medical Services (UEMS), a special type of government rescue service, the main task of which is to provide free of charge medical assistance to victims, rescuers and any other persons who take part in the response to and/or recovery process after incidents of any kind.

There are additional municipal command posts in the autonomous cities of Kyiv and Sevastopol.

In the case of a large scale disaster, supplementary help can be provided in the form of a mobile hospital of State Emergency Service of Ukraine (MNS).

[2] Additionally, the UEMS has the option to request support from private aircraft or those in use by the State Emergency Service, Ministry of Defence and/or any other government agency.

Commissions have coordinated: For assistance to victims the UEMS utilises medical teams at local hospitals such as: UEMS personnel have been deployed as part of Ukrainian joint teams in response to: