Medical Forces Command ( uk, Командування Медичних сил Збройних Сил України) is the specialist corps in the

Ukrainian Armed Forces , imports = , exports = , history = , ranks = Military ranks of Ukraine , country=Ukraine The Armed Forces of Ukraine ( uk, Збро́йні си́ли Украї́ни), most commonly know ...

responsible for providing medical services to military personnel and their families. At the beginning of February 2020, the command was established, providing for the unification of the medical service under the leadership of the Commander of the Medical Forces, who in turn is subordinate to the Commander-in-Chief of the Armed Forces of Ukraine. Four operational commands will be created within Medical Forces Command, totalling to 134 people.

Commanders

Major General Major general (abbreviated MG, maj. gen. and similar) is a military rank used in many countries. It is derived from the older rank of sergeant major general. The disappearance of the "sergeant" in the title explains the apparent confusion of a ...

Igor Khomenko (2020–2021) * Major General

Tetiana Ostashchenko Tetiana Mykolaivna Ostashchenko uk, Тетяна Миколаївна Остащенко; born August 1974) is a Ukrainian military doctor, major general and Commander of the Medical Forces of the Ukrainian Armed Forces since 2021. She is t ...

(since 2021) On 19 November 2023, Ukrainian President

Volodymyr Zelenskyy Volodymyr Oleksandrovych Zelenskyy, ; russian: Владимир Александрович Зеленский, Vladimir Aleksandrovich Zelenskyy, (born 25 January 1978; also transliterated as Zelensky or Zelenskiy) is a Ukrainian politicia ...

has made changes to the Ukrainian Armed Forces Medical Forces by replacing the commander Major General Tetiana Ostashchenko with Major General

Anatoliy Kazmirchuk Anatoliy Petrovych Kazmirchuk ( uk, Анатолій Петрович Казмірчук; born 26 June 1970) is a Ukrainian military doctor, Commander of the Medical Forces of the Armed Forces of Ukraine. Former head of the National Military Me ...

. On 1 December 2023, Ukrainian Major General

was officially made the head of the Commander of the Medical Forces of Ukraine. After faulty Chinese medical equipment has flooded Ukraine, combined with poor training has led to the loss of life. Ukrainian Defence Minister

Rustem Umerov Rustem Umerov ( uk, Рустем Енверович Умеров; Crimean Tatar: Rustem Enver oğlu Umerov / Рустем Энвер огълу Умеров, born April 19, 1982 in Samarkand, Uzbek SSR) is a Ukrainian politician, businessman, ...

, in his comments, at the swearing in ceremony, talked about combining NATO approaches with Ukrainian combat experience.

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КОМАНДУВАННЯ МЕДИЧНИХ СИЛ ТРЕТЄ ЗА ЧИСЕЛЬНІСТЮ В ЗСУ
Medical units and formations Military units and formations of Ukraine Military units and formations established in 2020 {{Ukraine-mil-unit-stub