On March, 3, 2020 the first coronavirus case in Ukraine was registered in Chernivtsi, only ten days later a COVID-19 patient was hospitalized in the Kitsman hospital. At the pandemic beginning the town and the whole country were overwhelmed by panic and confusion — nobody knew how to fight the virus and how dreadful its consequences will be. However, it was most difficult for medical staff, unable to wait for the lock-down to pass at home, but having to be daily in danger, treating others.

Here is the story of changes undergone for a year and half of the pandemic by the Kitsman hospital, headed by Volodymyr Khromiuk for four years.