About 80 people have already been aided by PFVMH medics at Maryinka Checkpoint

As of Friday, about 80 people of those crossing the delimitation line between the Ukrainian government-controlled and noncontrolled territories from both sides used services of the first-aid station opened on Tuesday near the Maryinka Checkpoint, medics who run the facility reported.

The first-aid station, complete with a warming tent, was set up by Première Urgence Internationale, a non-profit, non-political and non-religious international NGO, under a project funded by the European Commission’s Directorate-General for European Civil Protection and Humanitarian Aid Operations (ECHO). The Pirogov First Volunteer Mobile Hospital provides medical personnel for the station.

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Setting up the first-aid station near the Maryinka Checkpoint. Donetsk Oblast, Dec. 13, 2016