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IOM mobile clinics provide necessary health-care services and specialised consultations across 9 regions to support people who cannot afford the costs. Photo: IOM Ukraine
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 2,389,909 Humanitarian services delivered since 24 February 2022
 > 50 Network of IOM implementing partners
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 Through the Common Pipeline and inter-agency convoy, IOM distributed 7,289 non-food items (NFIs) reaching vulnerable people in Kharkiv, Donetsk, Kyiv, Khmelnytskyi, Vinnytsia, and Ternopil regions. Distributions helped people with their essential daily needs and included blankets, jerry cans, winterization kits, solar lamps, plastic containers, mattresses, towels, and kitchen sets.
 IOM’s Camp Coordination and Camp Management (CCCM) programme conducted a workshop for government authorities in Vinnytsia, gathering 21 participants. The workshop increased decision-makers’ understanding of how to navigate the humanitarian system, prioritise the needs of the population, and manage displacement in urban settings. Participants represented Vinnytsia City Council and Vinnytsia Regional Administration.
 IOM distributed solid fuel to 375 households, conducted repairs to 75 private houses, and continued repairs for collective centres and social institutions across the country. To enable communities in frontline areas to repair their damaged homes, IOM distributed 1,620 emergency shelter kits in Kherson and Donetsk regions.
 IOM provided 1,722 primary health-care services and 1,299 specialized consultations through mobile clinics operating in Kharkiv, Poltava, Sumy, Chernivtsi, Ivano-Frankivsk, Zakarpattia, Dnipro, Zaporizhzhia, and Vinnytsia regions. Through its partners, IOM also provided surgical mentoring and on-the-job training for 18 specialists and trained 146 medical practitioners in Dnipro and Poltava in trauma first aid, bringing the total of health-care specialists trained across the country to 6,252.
 Registration for multi-purpose cash assistance (MPCA) continues in Sumy, Kharkiv, Zaporizhzhia, and Dnipropetrovsk regions, along with field monitoring missions in Kharkiv. This week IOM supported an additional 400 families with cash for rent assistance. Since February 2022, IOM’s CBI programme has reached 235,905 people.
 Through the MHPSS Hotline, IOM carried out 321 consultations (238 women, 83 men), including 250 initial consultations and psychological first aid sessions, 64 sessions within the framework of short and medium-term psychological counselling and psychotherapy, and seven psychiatrists' consultations. This brings the total number to 10,057 (7,060 women, 2,993 men) consultations since February 2022.
 IOM continued to provide general protection support to vulnerable people, including IDPs and war-affected populations, as well as specialized protection assistance, and consultations through the National Toll-Free Counter-Trafficking and Migrant Advice Hotline 527. IOM provided 3,633 consultations in response to 833 calls received. IOM also assisted 20 people (12 women, 8 men) through the Kyiv Medical Rehabilitation Centre for Survivors of Trafficking, Exploitation, or Abuse.
 IOM WASH has supported 3,200 people in Kherson and Donetsk regions with safe water, by supporting the water utilities (vodokanals) in replacing key equipment and machineries. IOM also supplied the vodokanals in Chernivtsi and Zhytomyr with one 512 kW and one 478 kW generator, to aid the water utilities to produce water around-the-clock for over 142,000 people. To support the most vulnerable communities in areas that suffered from hostilities in Donetsk, Zaporizhzhia, Dnipropetrovsk and Kyiv regions, IOM distributed hygiene kits reaching almost 2,000 people.
 As part of winterization support at the border, IOM’s Migration & Border Management (MBM) programme installed two mobile resting units at the Shehyni border crossing point (BCP) in Lviv Region, which serve as temporary shelters and resting spaces for people crossing the border. IOM also provided a powerful diesel generator to support uninterrupted traveller processing during power outages at Shehyni BCP. At Rava-Ruska BCP in the Lviv region, IOM installed a heating boiler system to provide warmth during the winter months for people crossing the border.
 IOM Transition & Recovery (T&R), in partnership with the Ministry of Veterans Affairs and collaboration with the Ministry of Health of Ukraine and other governmental authorities, held a kick-off session for a new project to enhance Ukrainian resilience through community-based integration and strengthened capacities of psychosocial support for veterans, their family members, and their community. As part of the Peace, Security, and Human Rights programme, an IOM technical specialist on reparations led a full-day training on the basic concepts of transitional justice and reparations for eight representatives of the Ukrainian Parliament Commissioner for Human Rights. As part of the Community Participation and Cohesion programme, IOM continued outreach activities in local hromadas targeted by the “Everyone Counts” project in Zaporizhzhia, Chernihiv, Sumy, Zakarpattia, Kyiv and Lviv regions. IOM reached out to 86 hromadas to assess their needs and better design project activities.
 IOM Data and Analytics continued data collection for Round 4 of the Solid Fuel Assessment and Round 20 of the Area Baseline Assessment. Publications will be available in the coming weeks, supporting IOM’s and its humanitarian partners’ evidence-based programming and policymaking.
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The Zaporizhzhia Region has experienced consistent shelling from the areas beyond control of the Government of Ukraine. Zaporizhzhia also serves as an important stop-over for people fleeing to the government-controlled areas where they can receive critical humanitarian support.
The IOM mobile health teams work in Zaporizhzhia city as well as visit communities across the region to bring free medical services closer to those newly arriving, and people who can’t leave their homes. In mobile clinics, people can receive scheduled vaccinations, ultrasounds, and cardiograms, measure blood pressure and sugar level, and consult with a therapist who can also refer them to narrow-profile specialists for additional examinations. Over the last four months, mobile health teams comprised of general practitioners and nurses have provided medical consultations, examinations, and medical prescriptions, conducted diagnostic testing, and offered vaccination services and health promotion interventions to over 650 people, while psychologists reached 182 people with individual sessions to support their mental health.
According to IOM data, 22 per cent of people in eastern regions reported a lack of medicines and health services, with people also reporting being unable to afford medication and consultation costs. IOM activities support people as well as the local medical facilities with free medical services and vital medication, including through support from the Governments of Norway, the United States of America, and the Ukraine Humanitarian Fund (UHF).
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IOM Ukraine's activities are supported by:
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