On 12 February 2026, a working meeting was held at the Mission dedicated to access to medical services for citizens of Ukraine who have left the temporarily occupied territories of Ukraine.

The expert discussion brought together representatives of the Ministry of Health of Ukraine, the Ministry of Education and Science of Ukraine, the National Health Service of Ukraine, the Prosecutor’s Office of the Autonomous Republic of Crimea and the City of Sevastopol, as well as practising physicians and representatives of human rights organisations, including the Coalition of Organisations Working on the Protection of the Rights of Persons Affected by the Armed Aggression against Ukraine, the “Rokada” Charitable Foundation, Physicians for Human Rights, the NGO “Athena. Women Against Cancer”, and the Ukrainian Foundation for Public Health.

During the discussion, participants noted that when seeking medical care, residents of the temporarily occupied territories may possess only medical documents issued by the occupying authorities. Such documents may contain information on chronic illnesses requiring continuous medical support, surgeries performed, and vaccinations received. Although Ukraine does not recognise documents issued by the occupiers, information about a patient’s health condition is often a matter of life and death.

Therefore, a key aspect of the discussion was determining which medical documents contain information that is critically important to citizens and supports the continuity of the treatment process.

Following the meeting, the participants agreed to inform citizens from the temporarily occupied territories about which medical documents they should take with them when moving to territory controlled by the Ukrainian Government, as well as to continue working on defining algorithms for taking into account information from specific medical documents held by citizens leaving the occupied territories.