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Oleh Miedviediev recalls how rockets fell near his house on February 24, 2022. And at 5 in the morning, his frightened son called. He told his father that the outskirts of Kharkiv were on fire from shelling. So Oleh joined the army to defend the country.

Last December, he was wounded near Bakhmut: an artillery shell exploded over him. Both Oleh’s legs were injured: his knee joints were completely shattered.

The serviceman was included in the national program #SaveaLimb. Currently, the defender is undergoing treatment in Dnipropetrovsk region. Doctors performed an endoprosthesis surgery on one leg, but the second one is awaiting treatment as well. At the same time, the soldier wants to start walking again and return to the front.

For reference: In order to ensure limb-saving treatment, the “Health of the Ukrainian People” International Charitable Foundation in cooperation with Ukrainian orthopedic doctors launched the national program #SaveaLimb. 

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Maria Nazarova was 17 when the Revolution of Dignity broke out in Kyiv. At Euromaidan, Maria arranged medical aid stations and took care of the injured. Later, she began translating foreign protocols on tactical medicine, with regard to the Soviet medical guidelines’ lack of credibility. In 2014, when Russia occupied Crimea and parts of Donetsk and Luhansk regions, Maria worked as a frontline medic. In 2015, the combat medic taught tactical medicine to law enforcement officers, and a year later, she began to reform tactical medicine in the Armed Forces at the General Staff. 

Also, thanks to her efforts, automated external defibrillators (AEDs) have been installed at every metro station in Kyiv, 9 of them have already proven to be lifesaving during resuscitation measures.

With the start of the all-out invasion, Maria returned to tactical medicine training at the Defense Forces.

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DonorUA and the Civil Preparedness Center in Kyiv will host blood donations collected for the military and civilians. Residents of the city will be able to donate blood and listen to a lecture on the importance of regular donations. The blood collection will be conducted by the Kyiv Regional Blood Service Center.

Speakers:

• Aliona Myha, transfusionist, head of the blood center at the Amosov National Institute of Cardiovascular Surgery;
• Iryna Slavinska, co-founder of DonorUA, President of the All-Ukrainian Association of Donors of Ukraine, and co-author of the Law of Ukraine “On Safety and Quality of Donated Blood and Blood Components”.

Media accreditation is required in advance. 

For reference: DonorUA is the only professional system of blood donor recruitment and navigation. It supports the 22 blood centers’ operation and cooperates with the Ministry of Health, the UCC, the WHO, the International Committee of the Red Cross, and the Global Blood Fund. Today, the DonorUA database includes over 135,000 donors. More than 7,000 patients have received targeted assistance through the platform, and it takes no more than 20 minutes to find a donor for a particular patient.

The Civilian Preparedness Center is a project of the Serhiy Prytula Charitable Foundation, aiming to teach civilians basic military training and provide them with the survival skills that may be needed during war. There are more than 60 centers in 17 regions of Ukraine. Over 1450 trainings have been held within the Civil Preparedness Center framework, attended by more than 25 thousand civilian Ukrainians

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Serhiy Bas is the founder of Zubayster Mobile Dentistry. He came up with the idea to visit soldiers and treat their teeth right at the front in the summer of 2022. The volunteer dentist says that dental problems on the front line often get worse and can sometimes even threaten the lives of Ukrainian soldiers.

Thanks to his investments and donations from all those concerned, Serhiy managed to raise more than $15,000 and create a mobile dental office to travel to the front line. For almost a year of the Zubayster project’s work, volunteers have provided the necessary dental care to more than 1,500 soldiers and civilians living in the frontline area. In a day, doctors have 25 to 30 soldier’s appointments in one mobile office. Since August this year, the volunteers opened a second office.

For reference: Volunteer dentists are ready to take those accredited by the Ministry of Defense of Ukraine journalists to the point of deployment, provided they. In addition, the mobile office opened to the public in Odesa.

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The UNBROKEN starts its prosthetic workshop on the anniversary of the prosthetics program launch on September 26. The center welcomes all Lviv residents comers to see what the daily work of a large team of prosthetists looks is and also to learn about all the stages of fabricating artificial limbs. There will be an opportunity to visit the rehabilitation center and see how long and how exhausting the patients’ journey from injury to prosthetics is.

A briefing and a workshop’s year’s work summary are also planned. 

It is required to apply for media accreditation in advance. 

For reference: the UNBROKEN National Rehabilitation Center launched the first mobile workshop on September 26, 2022. Now there is a modern multi-sectional 250 m² area workshop, equipped with the best equipment from leading manufacturers. Over the year of the prosthetic workshop’s operation, 215 Ukrainian amputees have already got artificial limbs. Six of them got their missing body parts replaced with bionic prosthetic arms.

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On September 28, training for future volunteer medics will take place in Dnipropetrovsk Oblast to last for more than a week. In October, the training will be held in Kyiv.

The Hospitallers medical volunteer battalion organizes such training sessions regularly across the country.

Journalists are welcomed to cover the training process.

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A team of plastic surgeons will perform a free surgery for a Ukrainian defender in Kyiv as part of the NoScar initiative on September 22. Bohdan is 24 years old. He is a soldier from the Kirovohrad region. His military service took place near Kherson and was seriously injured. The defender lost his eye and had shrapnel wounds all over his body. His arm is not functioning properly. On Friday, the team of doctors plans to treat the largest scar on his chest, reconstructive surgery of the eyelids, and tissue lipofilling (to make the prosthetic eye not differ from a healthy one).

Journalists will have an opportunity to talk to the doctors and the patient.

For reference: NoScar is an initiative to provide free scar correction for Ukrainians who suffered in the war.

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On September 15, free first aid training will be held at 12 stations of the capital subway. Experienced specialists and instructors of the Center for Emergency Medical Aid and Disaster Medicine will conduct training for everyone. Doctors will teach people how to initially assess the victim’s condition, how to act in case of massive bleeding, airflow limitation, thermal burns, etc.

Important note: Foreign media must obtain accreditation from the Ministry of Defense of Ukraine.

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During Russia’s full-scale invasion of Ukraine, Oleh decided to join the army to fight in the war. His unit was assigned to the 68th Jaeger Brigade. The man says that an enemy tank hit the building he was in. Shell fragments hit Oleh in the leg and severely injured it. Later, due to improper treatment, the metatarsal bone began to rot and had to be removed. 

However, now the man is a member of the #SavetheLimb National Program, which entails amputation-free survival. Healthcare professionals are working towards leg salvage. Some patients treated within the program, depending on the complexity of their injuries, may undergo as many as twenty surgeries to avoid limb amputation. 

For information: The “Save the Limb” national program was launched last year at the initiative of the International Charitable Foundation “Health of the Ukrainian People.” Its mission is to stop the disability of Ukrainians due to injuries to their arms and legs sustained during the war.

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On September 12, a briefing on the topic: “Results of work by CO-PILOT NEURO mission of American neurosurgeons to Ukraine” will take place in Kyiv.

Participants:

Maksim Shapiro, neurosurgeon (USA)

Peter K. Nelson, endovascular neurosurgeon (USA)

Professor Dmytro Shcheglov, neurosurgeon specializing in interventional neuroradiology, Candidate of Medical Sciences (Ukraine)

Mykhailo Kostiuk, neurosurgeon, vascular surgeon, Candidate of Medical Sciences (Ukraine)

Olena Tieriaieva, medical expert, Project Manager at “RAZOM Health” program of the “RAZOM for Ukraine” charity (Ukraine)

The American neurosurgeons’ mission visited different cities of Ukraine on September 4-13. Doctors of the mission perform the most complex neurosurgical operations and help implement the latest costly neuroradiological technologies to treat cerebrovascular diseases in Ukraine.

On September 4-6, the mission performed surgeries in Dnipro, on September 7-9 in Lviv, and on September 10-13 in Kyiv.

For reference: The “Co-Pilot” program has been implemented by the “RAZOM” foundation together with partners during 2016-2023. It brings missions of American and Canadian doctors of various specialties to Ukraine: reconstructive surgeons, face, head and neck, eye reconstruction, neurosurgeons, orthopedists and traumatologists. The purpose of the program is to train professional doctors of the highest level in Ukraine, who would become the foundation, from which the latest knowledge and technologies will spread among the entire medical community.

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