Former Lithuanian Health Minister Helps Ukrainian Medics on the Frontline

Former Lithuanian Health Minister Aurimas Pečkauskas has been actively involved in supporting Ukrainian medics in the combat zone, combining volunteer work with his own professional experience.

The Gaze reports on it, referring to European Pravda, citing LRT.

Pečkauskas, who previously served as Minister of Health and worked as an anesthesiologist-resuscitator, has visited Ukraine several times as part of humanitarian and medical missions.

“I first visited Ukraine when I was still Minister of Health – at that time it was an official visit to civilian medical facilities in Poltava, Lviv, and Kyiv,” he said.

As part of his work as a Blue/Yellow doctor, he spent two and a half weeks in the combat zone, assisting local medics, delivering humanitarian aid, and studying military medicine in practice.

He also worked with Ukrainian medical teams in the Donetsk region near the front line and with the TacMed Ukraine organization, providing medical evacuation and ambulance transport for patients.

In addition to his practical work, the former Minister brought medical equipment and surgical instruments from Lithuania, which had been collected by the Lithuanian Society of Anesthesiologists and Resuscitators.

Pečkauskas also reported that he worked in a modern ambulance, assisted doctors in Kyiv, visited a military medical center in Vinnytsia, and supported mobile surgical teams directly on the front lines.

As The Gaze informed earlier, the Lithuanian solidarity campaign “Radarom!” has successfully delivered over 2,600 drones to support Ukraine’s Armed Forces, as part of a broader effort that continues to unite Lithuanian citizens and companies in defense of Ukraine.