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Lviv Organ Hall has responded to calls to save electricity. Therefore, until the end of this month, it will hold all its events with minimal power consumption.

Recently, due to massive missile strikes on critical infrastructure facilities in Lviv, power outages have occurred. Before the beginning of one of the concerts in Lviv Organ Hall, power outage occurred, so the entire symphony orchestra played half of the concert for the audience in complete darkness. They highlighted their scores with small lanterns.

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Maksym Lutsyk, Rostyslav Stoika, and Rostyslav Bilyi, Professors at Danylo Halytsky Lviv National Medical University, developed a hemostatic agent that now saves the lives of Ukrainian soldiers. They got to work on it back in 2014, after russia’s invasion of Ukraine. Two years later, they patented it. And now, at the cost of American investors, they produce the hemostatic agent and send it to the front at no charge. When this hemostatic agent comes into contact with blood, it forms a viscous gel, which helps stop bleeding. In some respects, the “Blood Clotting Activator”, as the scientists called it, surpassed “Celox”, the well-established on the market drug produced in the UK.

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37-year old Roman Poltavets was injured on June 19 in the Kharkiv region. That day, the soldier noticed a tripwire hidden in leaves. Roman alerted his friends to the danger and allowed them to leave the dangerous place first. When the explosion occurred, Roman’s comrades were not injured, but he lost his leg.

As soon as in October, a team of surgeons, prosthetists, rehabilitation specialists and psychotherapists of Rehabilitation Center “Nezlamni“ in Lviv made a decision that the man was ready for the prosthesis delivery and started working. Only a week passed from the moment when Roman entered the Center with crutches, and left without them.

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• Lviv

October 19 — A Day for Unbreakable. Previously, Ukrainians were encouraged to transfer a one-day salary for prostheses for those who suffered due to the war. The general purpose of the campaign is to collect 100 mln hryvnias. Last year, October 19 was A Day for Viktoriia Poliuha. At that time, 50 mln hryvnias were collected for the girl diagnosed with SMA.

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Serhii, the 22-years old Ukrainian soldier, was blown up by a mine in May of this year — on the anniversary of meeting his girlfriend Iuliia. The guy lost his arm and decided to break with his girlfriend not to burden her. However, Iulia found the fighter and proposed marriage to him. Now the couple is in the Center “NEZLAMNI” of the First Medical Association of Lviv. Here Serhii is being prepared for prosthetic repair. Jointly with Dobro.ua charity platform, the Center raises funds for a modern bionic prosthetic arm for the defender. It costs 20,000–40,000 euros.

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• Lviv

The renovated Mental Health Center launched in Lviv will provide free consultations for Ukrainian military and their families. The Center plans to employ at least 8 specialists: psychiatrists, psychotherapists, a psychologist and a cognitive-behavioral therapist. Over the past five months, specialists of the Mental Health Center within the National Rehabilitation Center “Nezlamni“ have been advising civilians and military personnel affected by the war on a daily basis. Now they will do that in updated comfortable settings. All expenses for repair and equipment of the Mental Health Center premises were covered by the Lviv IT Cluster.

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• Lviv

Ukrainians from Kharkiv, Donetsk, Crimea, Kherson, Luhansk, and, of course, Lviv Oblast will share a piece of their home with each other in Lviv’s Lem Station art space on October 1. Event participants will cook and taste Mariupol’s shumush pie, discuss traditional costumes, paint a Crimean Tatar ornament, and listen to the sounds of the sea and a performance by the Luhansk Philharmonic.

Visiting the Countrymen, a free event organized by Lviv’s Tourism Office, aims at familiarizing Ukrainians with their native land at a local level and celebrating World Tourism Day.

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An event to provide information about each form of family-based child care and about preparing for a child to join your family will take place on the occasion of the National Adoption Day at Lviv’s House of Mercy on September 30, 2022, at 12.00 PM (noon). Potential foster families will be able to discuss all issues related to adopting children during the war.

Background information: There are 523 orphans or children left without parental care in Lviv Oblast at the moment. Of them, 103 children can be adopted.

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• Lviv

The first municipal prosthetics workshop started working in Lviv within the scope of the NEZLAMNI project. It is accommodated in a special mobile container module. Prosthetics will be made by Ottobock, an internationally renowned German company. The workshop will take measures of patients who need the prosthetics, while the medics will configure and refine the prosthetics.

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Registration for the charity “Run to 100,000 Bulletproof Vests” was extended until September 26. Anyone who wants to take part in the run in an online format and receive a medal made of real armored steel used to make body armor for Ukrainian defenders. With the funds received from registration fees, Lviv Defense Cluster will produce body armor for the military.

A number of Ukrainian athletes have joined the initiative including: Yaroslava Mahuchikh, Zhan Beleniuk, Olga Saladukha, Viktoria Shkurko, Anzhelika Terliuga and Stanislav Horuna. More than 1,700 participants have already registered for the run, and over UAH 1.8 million have already been collected.

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