Underground medicine: Aussie GP tells of her new life under fire amid the war in Ukraine

'When I start talking to patients, they break down, words spilling out of them of the horrors they have endured,' says Dr Lisa Searle
  • News
  • Australian Doctor
  • 28 April 2022

Dr Lisa Searle is caring for some of Ukraine’s most vulnerable in an underground metro tunnel in Kharkiv. 

A doctor with Médecins Sans Frontières, the Tasmanian GP was posted to Ukraine in March.

She says the metro has become a refuge for those who have lost families and their homes and possessions as a result of the airstrikes. 

As I am writing, I am lying on a makeshift bed built out of cardboard, coats and blankets donated and scavenged and provided to me for the night by the people living here. 

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