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The FACE TO FACE mission of American plastic and reconstructive surgeons is coming to the UNBROKEN National Rehabilitation Center in Lviv.

On November 12-17, a team of American surgeons, together with Lviv-based specialists, will conduct free consultations and reconstructive surgeries for the military and civilian Ukrainians who suffered due to the war and received face and neck injuries.

Specialists will include: plastic, maxillofacial and reconstructive surgeons, ENT physicians, orthopedists and ophthalmologists. The doctors have already selected patients for complex reconstructive face and neck surgeries. All surgical interventions and their time in the clinic will be free of charge. In general, 42 patients are to receive help as part of this mission.

Prior accreditation is required.

For reference: the humanitarian program was created in cooperation with the American Academy of Facial Plastic and Reconstructive Surgery (AAFPRS) (The Educational and Research Foundation) as well as Razom for Ukraine and INgenius organizations.

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Oleksandr Markov is a board-certified neurosurgeon. In 2015, he took up arms and joined a volunteer battalion. After returning from the front, Oleksandr took on rehabilitating civilians and soldiers at first, as a hired employee, and after 2022, as the founder of a rehabilitation center in Kharkiv. Oleksandr won a grant and received financial support from the Ukrainian Veterans Foundation and started working with military personnel who required his professional help.

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Since the beginning of the full-scale war, Olena Yuzvak has been under occupation. Despite the Russians taking over Hostomel, the doctor stayed and continued to work and help people. Olena distributed medicine and took care of the wounded until the occupiers took her prisoner. The doctor was imprisoned for a day, and 10 days later, the Ukrainian forces retake control of Hostomel. Olena immediately went back to work and tackled to restore the medical facilities she managed. One of them was located in the village of Moshchun in the Kyiv Oblast and was destroyed by a direct shell hit. Thanks to the support of international funds, Olena managed to build a new Health Center and turn it to be an energy-independent Point of Invincibility. Now the doctor continues to work toward the restoration of medical facilities. 

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The second department of the RECOVERY national network innovative rehabilitation center for wounded soldiers has started working In Kyiv enabling the rehabilitation of more than 600 Ukrainian defenders annually.

Since the Kyiv RECOVERY Center was launched at the end of May 2023, 150 Ukrainian soldiers have recovered here thanks to the multidisciplinary rehabilitation team and state-of-the-art equipment. With the opening of the second department, the number of beds in the center has been increased from 30 to 50, which will allow more wounded to recover.

The new ward is equipped up to the highest barrier-free standards. Every ward is equipped with multifunctional beds with electric drive and appropriate furniture for a comfortable stay of patients with limited mobility. 

For reference: RECOVERY’s innovative rehabilitation centers for military personnel are already operating in Lviv, Vinnytsia, Kyiv, Odesa (two facilities), and Dnipro region (two facilities). In total, the specialists of the national network have already helped more than 3,500 patients this year. In 2024, the founders announced that the capacity of the national network would be at least doubled.

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On October 23, a sports ground and a rehabilitation ward will be opened at the Kyiv Regional Mental Health Center. The occupiers seized the center at the beginning of the full-blown war. Russian soldiers stole valuable equipment and severely damaged the Center while living in the facility. In particular, the windows and doors were smashed. After the de-occupation, the medical center reconstruction began. 

The philanthropists who contributed to the restoration of the Center, as well as the first captain of the Ukrainian national team at the Invictus Games, champion of the Games, commander Oleksandr Pysarenko (to train patients exercises on the playground) will attend the new sports ground opening. 

Journalists will also be able to interview the institution’s management and talk to doctors and patients as far as possible. 

For reference: The Kyiv Regional Mental Health Center is a healthcare institution providing qualified inpatient physical health assessment, treatment, and social and labor rehabilitation for patients with mental disorders.

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Glenna Manchego is 22 years old. She was born in the United States, where she received her medical education. The woman decided that the best place where she could apply her skills is Ukraine. So, Glenna joined the Second International Legion as a paramedic. In order to save Ukrainian soldiers after shelling, knowing the Ukrainian language is not necessary, says Glenna, and tactical medicine is a lot like car repairs: it is universal. The American admits that even thousands of kilometers from the U.S., it feels almost like home to her, and her brothers and sisters in arms have become her second family.

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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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