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On April 21, Lviv will host the Armor Fest charity festival to raise UAH 1 million. The funds will be spent on purchasing ultralight body armor plates for Ukrainian paramedics who save the lives of soldiers in the most challenging areas of the frontline. The festival is organized by the VETERANKA Women’s Veteran Movement, which assists the defenders of Ukraine and people affected by the Russian invasion.

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The International Rehabilitation Forum will be held in Lviv on April 11-12. Specialists from all over the world (doctors, experts, representatives of international institutions and foundations, including Red Cross and Red Crescent societies national representatives) will come together to discuss, analyze and develop ways to provide quality rehabilitation for people affected by the war in Ukraine.

During the Forum, participants will be able to learn more, in particular, about the UNBROKEN project, observe Ukrainian medics working in emergency conditions, and join the discussion to search for strategic solutions for the treatment, prosthetics, and rehabilitation of war victims.

Accreditation is required.

For reference: UNBROKEN National Rehabilitation Center is a unique place where adults and children affected by the war receive comprehensive, qualified medical care. Since the beginning of the full-scale invasion, more than 11,000 wounded Ukrainians have been treated here, including 350 children.

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On April 11, a new building of the UNBROKEN National Rehabilitation Center will be opened in Lviv. The center, equipped with the most modern appliances and the latest techniques, is fully dedicated to returning the military and civilians to full life. The new center building includes seven floors for rehabilitation, with the apartments and a shop modeled. This way, the patient can prepare for new living conditions as much as possible. Every year, 10 thousand Ukrainians will be able to receive help here.

For reference: the UNBROKEN National Rehabilitation Center based at the First Medical Union of Lviv is a unique place where everyone affected by the war gets a chance to be saved and receive quality rehabilitation. A multidisciplinary team: a surgeon, traumatologist, prosthetist, psychotherapist, and rehabilitation specialist works with each such citizen. The patient does not have to seek help abroad or in several different institutions but receives it at one single center.

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In April, Superhumans Center, a modern prosthetics and rehabilitation hospital will officially open in Lviv. Superhumans services are free for victims of war (civilian and military).

The second facility of the institution is planned to be opened in October. It will include 2 operating rooms, 45-bed wards and apartments for foreign doctors who will pass on their experience to their Ukrainian colleagues. In addition, Ukrainian prosthetists and rehabilitators from different parts of the country will be trained at Superhumans Center.

As reported, even before the official opening, two Ukrainian defenders have already received the first bionic prostheses in the hospital.

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Lviv-based company “Skeiron” made a 3D model of Mariupol Drama Theater destroyed by russia. (As reported, on March 16, the occupiers dropped an aerial bomb on this cultural site, while civilians were still hiding inside). Currently, specialists are working on the development of a digital image of the interior of the institution, as well as of the central part of Mariupol. By the way, since the beginning of the full-scale war, the team digitized over 40 objects in the 3D format (they worked in Lviv, Kyiv, Khmelnytskyi, Volyn, Vinnytsia and Chernivtsi regions).

For reference: #SaveUkrainianHeritage project by “Skeiron” company aims to create 3D models of Ukrainian cultural sites by using laser scanning in order to preserve the cultural heritage of Ukraine.

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Additional modular houses were opened in the modular town “Mariapolis” in Lviv. Now 1,500 people will be able to live here. So far, the town has received about 700 refugees, who are mostly women with children from Donetsk, Luhansk and Kharkiv regions.

In addition to residential modules, “Mariapolis” has kitchens, showers, bathrooms and playrooms. The modular town was built with the support of the UK and Poland.

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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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A field kitchen in the shape of a tipi (Native American tent) was put up in Sokilnyky, Lviv Oblast. There, the refugees are treated to vegan dinners. The menu may include, for example, roasted soybeans and wood-fired borscht. No electricity or gas is used for cooking. Within a day, volunteers make several hundred portions of food.

The field kitchen was put up with the help of the American organization “Altruist Relief Kitchen” from Alaska. Tipis may be installed in other cities of Ukraine in the near future.

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