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Doctors of the Hospitallers Medical Battalion will teach civilians how to provide medical aid to the injured. The training is expected to start next week in Kherson.

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On March 27, a briefing on the handover of 33 ambulances from the WHO to the Ministry of Health of Ukraine will be held in Lviv region. Ambulances will help healthcare workers provide medical care more quickly and efficiently during the russian invasion of Ukraine. Participants of the event will include: Viktor Liashko, Minister of Health of Ukraine; Jarno Habicht, WHO Representative in Ukraine at World Health Organization; Maciej Popowski, Director-General – Directorate General European Civil Protection and Humanitarian Aid Operations (DG ECHO); Tetiana Rastryhina, Senior Project Management Specialist at USAID Ukraine Health Office.

Accreditation is required.

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On March 23, the UNBROKEN National Rehabilitation Center in Lviv is opening a prosthetics workshop equipped with equipment from one of the best manufacturers in the world, the German company Ottobock. Patients of the Center will come to the opening, as well as the first child that received a prosthesis from the UNBROKEN center, a 13-year-old son of Ukraine’s defender. Doctors and patients will also draw a picture of the sunrise as a symbol of the beginning of a new day. This piece of art will later be put up on the walls of the new building of the UNBROKEN National Rehabilitation Center, which will be opened on April 11.

For reference: The UNBROKEN National Rehabilitation Center operates from the building of the First Medical Association of Lviv — the largest medical institution in Ukraine, which includes two adult hospitals and one children’s hospital. The directions of the Center’s work include reconstructive surgery, orthopedics and prosthetics. In addition, the Center provides physical, psychological and psychosocial rehabilitation. Patients receive all medical assistance free of charge.

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Bill Clinton’s former personal physician, an American plastic surgeon whose father is from Ukraine, and six other surgeons from the United States recently arrived in Ukraine to help Ukrainians.

During this mission, doctors will help Ukrainians with post-burn deformities, congenital and acquired facial deformities, and neurosurgical injuries.

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The Ministry of Health says that mobile “health centers” will appear in place of the destroyed local primary health centers. Each center will be equipped with furniture, a refrigerator, separate sanitary facilities, etc. This is a temporary decision — until full-fledged primary health centers are rebuilt on the site of the destroyed medical facilities.

Recently, UA Dream Charitable Foundation established the first modular “health center” in Moshchun village, Kyiv region. Currently, the Ministry of Health, in cooperation with the foundation, plans to put up a few more such mobile centers throughout the country.

For reference: on the territory of Kyiv region, the russians damaged 124 medical facilities and completely destroyed 4 of them within over a year of the war.

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On Saturday, March 11, the all-Ukrainian project “Mobile Doctors” invites journalists to come along on a medical trip to Novoselivka village in Chernihiv region. The organizers pointed out that the Polish government helped to put up a modular town there. At the moment, up to 300 Ukrainians, whose homes have been destroyed, live in this town.

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For reference: “Mobile Doctors” is a team of professional healthcare providers who have come together to treat people in the de-occupied villages and communities of Ukraine. They go to places where there is a shortage of doctors, pharmacies, and hospitals. They also developed a prototype of a “hospital on wheels” with its own laboratory.

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According to “Ukrainian Women Veteran Movement” NGO, paramedics wear over 31 kg worth of gear every day: body armor, helmet, backpack with medicine, tourniquets, bandages, etc. They need to move quickly, roll over or carry the wounded. Veterans know from their own experience that it is difficult and could lead to devastating consequences for the musculoskeletal system. Therefore, the NGO decided to make life easier for these women and purchase 50 ultra-light bulletproof vests. (The weight of such a vest is 2 kg on average, and a standard one is 7 kg or more).

For reference: “Ukrainian Women Veteran Movement” NGO is a community of Ukrainian women with military experience. The NGO takes care of about a thousand female veterans and recruits: from advocating for the rights of female defenders to providing ammunition, basic hygiene products, cars, medical supplies, and drones. The organization’s mission is to help build a professional army where equal rights for women and men are guaranteed.

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Since the beginning of the full-scale war, the Ukrainian-Israeli medical volunteer movement FRIDA Ukraine has been going on charitable rescue missions and helping civilians. Currently, doctors are actively working in Kharkiv, Kherson and Donetsk oblasts. Journalists are invited to join the team of medical volunteers during future trips to the de-occupied territories.

For reference: Volunteer doctors (of various specialties) make trips and help local residents who complain about their health. They provide consultations, perform surgeries, evacuate people and distribute medicine.

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Vitalii and Andrii are the first patients to receive bionic hand prostheses at the Superhumans Center. Wearing the prosthesis, one of the defenders of Ukraine drew a blue and yellow heart, and then picked up and put down various objects, turned on the charger. Now he can drive a car, fold his clothes and comb his hair by himself. Another defender painted the Ukrainian flag and tried to fill the bag with things and lift it up, which he managed to do.

For reference: the Superhumans Center is a modern prosthetics, reconstruction and rehabilitation clinic that will soon open in Lviv. Currently, the hospital facilities are being supplied with necessary equipment. Superhumans services are free of charge for the victims of war.

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Eight surgeons from the U.S. will arrive in Lviv to help Ukrainians free of charge. They will consult people with congenital and acquired disorders, mine blast injuries to the face and burn injuries. Some of the patients will undergo surgery after consultations.

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