For Ukrainians going to Poland, the train station in Rzeszow has been turned into a refugee centre. Stating that the first aid was given to the refugees arriving at the train station, nurse Dominika Janas said, “We provide support and help to everyone at the health point we have, within their needs. We work 24 hours a day and see 50 to 100 people a day. The children were cold, did not eat for 2 or 3 days, and had diarrhea because they could not digest the cold food. They are cold, sleepless and dehydrated. They can get away from all this stress when they come here. It’s very sad to see all these women, children and old people right now because they don’t know what to do and they are looking for a place to stay, they are homeless. They have nowhere to go, and it’s their mental health, not their health and physical condition, that is the worst. They’re crying, they’re hugging us, they’re telling us how they’re feeling, and it’s extremely frustrating for us, too.”
Medyk Health Center officer Rafal Kut stated that they have made various preparations for refugees from Ukraine and said, “We have a big kind of warehouse where we prepared 800 beds for people coming from Ukraine and looking for a temporary stay in our city. Right now we are at a transition period, but people may need to stay here for upcoming weeks or months. We already have 350 refugees that stay in our facilities and use our clinics. We take care of them and let them go on their way.”
The Polish Border Guard announced that since the beginning of Russia’s attacks, approximately 1,067,000 Ukrainians have crossed into Poland.