The freezing of all funds to USAID ordered by Donald Trump has affected the jobs of thousands of people in the United States and abroad, and halted humanitarian programs around the world. One of the many countries badly hit by the funding freeze is Ukraine.
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00:00This mobile medical team is going on one of its last trips.
00:04Leaving the hospital in the city of Tchiv, they are off to see patients in remote villages.
00:09All made possible with US assistance, but the project has been suspended.
00:15We were supposed to travel on the 28th, but the day before we were told that the project was cancelled.
00:21We were scheduled to go to three villages, so we decided to go anyway.
00:25It would have been inhumane if they were waiting for us and we didn't come.
00:31The team arrives to see one of their regular patients.
00:37For 84-year-old Maria Mefodievna, a visit from the mobile medical team is one of the few times she gets to see a doctor.
00:49We did an ECG examination remotely.
00:53We did not bring a lot of heavy, bulky equipment, just the device that reads the ECG and a tablet.
01:01Then everything is stored in the cloud. We measured blood sugar and also cholesterol levels.
01:12How can I get to the hospital?
01:15I have to gather a team to go to the district police station so they can take me out in a wheelchair.
01:21And I'm not just speaking for myself, but for the young and the old.
01:25The bus leaves three times a week. How do you get to Chechiv?
01:36The mobile medical team is funded by USAID.
01:39They'll be able to keep the equipment they have received, including glucometers, a defibrillator and a portable ultrasound machine.
01:47But they can no longer work off-site.
01:49The hospital can't afford to fund the mobile team.
01:54The final house call is done.
01:56From now on, they can no longer visit patients in remote villages.
02:04If it were possible to refuel our car and go to a bedridden patient, we would go.
02:09But you see, not everything depends on us.
02:12It's a pity that it depends on Donald Trump.
02:15All they can do is wait.
02:17For now, the fate of these US-supported projects remains unknown.