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Ukrainian Defence Minister Rustem Umierov has signed an order on the creation of a medical department under the ministry, which will allow for the standardisation of tourniquets and combat first-aid kits for Ukrainian soldiers.
At the end of August, Ukraine’s foreign minister, Dmytro Kuleba, told those criticizing the speed of his country’s ‘much anticipated counter-offensive’ to “shut up”.
The Ukrainian government has adopted an order which will allow appropriately trained combat medics to administer blood transfusions at a pre-hospital stage. Source: Ministry of Health of Ukraine For this purpose, the Health Ministry is expanding a special training programme in the basics of transfusion therapy.
Medical Forces Command did not conduct a general inspection of the tourniquets provided to the Armed Forces, which was supposed to have been conducted by 14 August, said Solomiia Bobrovska, member of the Verkhovna Rada Committee of National Security.
Anton Shevchuk, Head of the Medical Service of the 82nd Separate Air Assault brigade, who requested that Medical Forces Command replace poor-quality Chinese tourniquets and asked social activist Oksana Korchynska to help with this, has been given a "severe reprimand.