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A mentoring program has been launched at NEZLAMNI National Rehabilitation Center with the goal to help patients adapt to trauma and return to living independently outside of a medical facility. This model of social support is called “peer-to-peer.” According to it, former patients, who themselves have gone through a difficult path to recovery and rehabilitation, share their experience and help current patients of the Center to cope with new circumstances.

Mentors are already counseling men and women affected by the war.

Currently, there are three mentors working in the NEZLAMNI team.

Victoriia. A Lviv resident. She was hit by a bus at the crosswalk. The girl lost her leg. In the NEZLAMNI Center, Victoria underwent rehabilitation and received a prosthesis.

Mykhailo. Paratrooper He lost his left arm and right leg when he was running to save his brothers in arms during the battles for Izyum. He got a bionic prosthetic hand at the NEZLAMNI Center.

Pavlo. Athlete. He has been in a wheelchair since the age of 12. He was injured as a result of falling from a tree. Despite this, he continued to do sports and became the champion of Ukraine and Europe in powerlifting. 

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Before the full-scale Russian invasion, Rina Reznik was a high school biology teacher interested in treating brain injuries. Later, she joined the Holosiivskyi Territorial Defense Forces and, in a few weeks, headed to the Donetsk region. Today, Rina is a medic with the Hospitallers Medical Battalion, and she is in charge of blood transfusions at the front and ensuring proper conditions for medical procedures.

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The Military Innovation Rehabilitation Center “BASE 4.5.0” has worked with combatants and their families for over six years. This time they are organizing water therapy. The military will be given surfing and wakeboarding lessons. In addition to physical exercises, the soldiers will have a theoretical part with military psychologists. The Center says such classes help the military return to civilian life.

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Andrew was born in the U.S.A., but he has Ukrainian roots – two grandfathers from Lviv. By profession, he is a family physician. When russia’s full-scale invasion of Ukraine began, Andrew first provided medical aid to Ukrainian refugees in Poland as a volunteer. And later he became part of a team of medical and psychological care volunteers who help people at the railway station in Lviv. The man also teaches tactical medicine to his colleagues.

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Kateryna Halushka is a volunteer and combat medic with the Hospitallers Medical Battalion. Even before the full-scale invasion, Kateryna underwent Hospitallers training and served at rotation method. After February 24, she rejoined the Hospitallers: from mid-March to mid-April 2022, she worked in the Kyiv region: Bucha, Hostomel, and Irpin. Then she went to the East to rescue the military in the Avdiivka sector. During the war, Kateryna lost her beloved: he and his unit were going to liberate Mariupol but were killed in action. Now Kateryna works in the Armed Forces as a communications officer.  She has now returned to Kyiv, and in a month, she will return to the East.

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Next week, a team of doctors from the Center for Pediatric Cardiology and Cardiac Surgery is going to Donetsk region to examine the hearts of children and adults. They will work in settlements of Volnovakha and Pokrovsk districts.

This will be the team’s fifth visit to Donetsk region. During the previous trips, doctors examined almost 600 children and adults. Some of the examined children have already undergone the necessary heart surgeries at the Center for Pediatric Cardiology and Cardiac Surgery (free of charge).

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FRIDA Ukraine teams of doctors to leave for two missions that will be carried out simultaneously in the Donetsk and Sumy regions. For two days, doctors will conduct full outpatient appointments in regional communities.

25 doctors divided into teams will work in several settlements in Donetsk Oblast at the same time. The teams of surgeons, cardiologists, dermatologists, ophthalmologists, and other specialists. A team of 16 doctors is going on a mission to Sumy Oblast.

Journalists can join the team of medical volunteers during the planned missions. There is also an opportunity to cover the activities of FRIDA Ukraine and conduct interviews with the team without traveling to the hot spots.

Holding a pre-accreditated status is required.

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The country’s only First Military Veterinary Clinic is operating in Khmelnytskyi. The clinic’s veterinarians treat both service animals and pets of internally displaced persons. Often, their patients are animals that got concussions or were wounded by shell fragments.  

Vets also travel to the frontline and de-occupied territories to rescue animals. For example, the veterinary center now shelters a fox from Bucha, which was found by local children and handed over to doctors. Despite burns covering 80% of the animal’s body, medical professionals managed to save it.

Overall, since February last year, the clinic’s specialists have helped several thousand animals.

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Neopalymi (Unburnt) is a national program of external rehabilitation for war-affected people. Everyone who needs help can receive free treatment for burns or scars of a non-domestic nature within the project.

For example, the project treats Natalia, who was injured in Mariupol in mid-March 2022. She took her children to a shelter and returned to get her belongings when an air raid hit. Illia, who joined the ranks of defenders voluntarily, got severe burns last September due to a tank fire. A patient named Olha was injured as a result of a rocket attack targeting Vinnytsia (the fire broke out, giving a woman hand burns, leaving post-burn scars, and making her undergo a transplant). Another victim named Tina received a scar on her forehead as it took her to crawl on the ground during enemy shelling.

Journalists can learn more about the project and talk to people who receive burns, scalds, and scars course of treatment, wherever possible. The Neopalymi project operates throughout Ukraine, as well as in Poland and Moldova.

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The Superhumans Center is a modern clinic in Ukraine that provides free medical services for prosthetics, rehabilitation, reconstructive surgery, and PTSD treatment. In addition, the center owns a laboratory where prostheses are manufactured.

Journalists can learn more about the clinic’s activities and talk to those the specialists provide assistance to, wherever possible. 

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