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The International Rehabilitation Forum will be held in Lviv on April 11-12. Specialists from all over the world (doctors, experts, representatives of international institutions and foundations, including Red Cross and Red Crescent societies national representatives) will come together to discuss, analyze and develop ways to provide quality rehabilitation for people affected by the war in Ukraine.

During the Forum, participants will be able to learn more, in particular, about the UNBROKEN project, observe Ukrainian medics working in emergency conditions, and join the discussion to search for strategic solutions for the treatment, prosthetics, and rehabilitation of war victims.

Accreditation is required.

For reference: UNBROKEN National Rehabilitation Center is a unique place where adults and children affected by the war receive comprehensive, qualified medical care. Since the beginning of the full-scale invasion, more than 11,000 wounded Ukrainians have been treated here, including 350 children.

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On April 11, a new building of the UNBROKEN National Rehabilitation Center will be opened in Lviv. The center, equipped with the most modern appliances and the latest techniques, is fully dedicated to returning the military and civilians to full life. The new center building includes seven floors for rehabilitation, with the apartments and a shop modeled. This way, the patient can prepare for new living conditions as much as possible. Every year, 10 thousand Ukrainians will be able to receive help here.

For reference: the UNBROKEN National Rehabilitation Center based at the First Medical Union of Lviv is a unique place where everyone affected by the war gets a chance to be saved and receive quality rehabilitation. A multidisciplinary team: a surgeon, traumatologist, prosthetist, psychotherapist, and rehabilitation specialist works with each such citizen. The patient does not have to seek help abroad or in several different institutions but receives it at one single center.

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Tetiana and her husband returned to their house in Moshchun in April 2022, and it had been destroyed as a result of fighting. They immediately started volunteering: interacting with foundations and other volunteers and asking for help (food, clothes). They supported the villagers and garden associations in every way possible, including setting up a humanitarian center in the local club. Today, the woman holds art therapy classes with local children.

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Hennadiy is an anesthesiologist and Head of the Anesthesiology Department of the Chernihiv Regional Hospital. At the very beginning of russia’s full-scale invasion, he was in the hospital around the clock.

As reported, during the most difficult days of the siege, more than 50 wounded people in need of surgical intervention were brought there within one hour. Having no power, heating and water supply, the man, together with other doctors and medical personnel, saved patients and even performed extremely complex operations while being bombed and shelled by artillery. During surgeries, the operating room had to be lit with improvised means (headlamps and ordinary flashlights, mobile phones), because lights in the room were constantly flickering. In order to warm the wounded, they even had to cover them with plastic bottles filled with hot water.

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NEST mobile houses project by Serhiy Prytula Charitable Foundation provides modular houses in Kyiv region to families who lost their homes as a result of russia’s full-scale invasion. For people, this is an opportunity to get temporary but comfortable housing on their own land, while the family rebuilds the destroyed house. The project has already provided 16 families with temporary homes. Additional funds for the modules that will house 22 families have already been put to use, and the modules are currently being manufactured. Works to put up new houses will begin on April 10. Project organizers can help find people for stories — those who already live in modular houses, or people who are still waiting for such accommodation.

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In April, Superhumans Center, a modern prosthetics and rehabilitation hospital will officially open in Lviv. Superhumans services are free for victims of war (civilian and military).

The second facility of the institution is planned to be opened in October. It will include 2 operating rooms, 45-bed wards and apartments for foreign doctors who will pass on their experience to their Ukrainian colleagues. In addition, Ukrainian prosthetists and rehabilitators from different parts of the country will be trained at Superhumans Center.

As reported, even before the official opening, two Ukrainian defenders have already received the first bionic prostheses in the hospital.

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At the beginning of the full-scale invasion, Vadym’s house in Moschun was hit by the enemy “Grad” twice: the man risked his own life to pull his grandson out of the flames. In addition, he helped other residents of the village by bringing food, providing people with fuel, and organizing the evacuation of hundreds of people. Vadym knows the entire chronology of the events in Moschun village.

For reference: fierce fighting took place in Moschun during the battles for Kyiv region in the spring of 2022. 80% of the houses were destroyed in the village.

On April 2, Ukraine commemorates the anniversary of the liberation of its northern regions from the russian invaders.

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Tetiana and her husband returned to their house in Moshchun in April 2022, and it had been destroyed as a result of fighting. They immediately started volunteering: interacting with foundations and other volunteers and asking for help (food, clothes). They supported the villagers and garden associations in every way possible, including setting up a humanitarian center in the local club. Today, the woman holds art therapy classes with local children.

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Liudmyla is 76 years old. She is an anesthesiologists-resuscitators by profession.  At the outbreak of the full-scale invasion, the woman joined the rescue effort of the occupied Hostomel in Kyiv region wounded residents (two people had shrapnel wounds). The outpatient clinic lacked the necessary tools, so she had to suture the wounded civilians with an ordinary sewing needle.

For reference: On April 2, Ukraine marks the anniversary of the liberation of the country’s northern regions(Kyiv, Chernihiv, Sumy) from russian occupiers.

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Additional modular houses were opened in the modular town “Mariapolis” in Lviv. Now 1,500 people will be able to live here. So far, the town has received about 700 refugees, who are mostly women with children from Donetsk, Luhansk and Kharkiv regions.

In addition to residential modules, “Mariapolis” has kitchens, showers, bathrooms and playrooms. The modular town was built with the support of the UK and Poland.

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