by Brenda Poor | Mar 17, 2025 | Faces of the Force, Global Care Force News, Ukraine
Not many people would say they can’t wait to return to a country at war – but Bob Downs isn’t most people. A retired Physician Assistant from Colorado, he is heading back to Ukraine with Global Care Force for a fourth time in April to provide medical care to the...
by Brenda Poor | Feb 21, 2025 | Media Stories, Ukraine
A Western slope physician is set to travel to Ukraine for a fourth time to treat citizens in the war-torn country. Bob Downs, a long-time physician, said he was looking for “mission work” and came across Global Care Force, which describes itself as “transforming lives...
by Brenda Poor | Jan 27, 2025 | Faces of the Force, United States
Tell us a little about yourself. What is your background, and where are you from?I’m a Physician Assistant. I completed a PA program in Kettering, Ohio. I’ve been a PA for 27 years, the first 17 years in emergency medicine at a level one trauma center, and the last 10...
by Brenda Poor | Nov 14, 2024 | Media Stories, Ukraine
Colorado volunteers on a medical mission in war-torn Ukraine have been getting an up-close look at the reality of life in a war-torn country as volunteers with Global Care Force. For the last two days, they’ve set up make-shift medical clinics in the town of Cherkasy,...
by Brenda Poor | Nov 13, 2024 | Media Stories, Ukraine
Russia attacked Kyiv, Ukraine, with a sophisticated combination of missiles and drones Wednesday, for the first time in 73 days. Air raid warnings lasted for hours throughout the country. But a pair of medical volunteers from Colorado were undeterred by the threat....
