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Near the Hospital of St. Panteleimon in Lviv, which until recently was an ambulance hospital, the city will open the National Rehabilitation Center «Unbreakable». The establishment will be located on the street Mykolaychuka and is claimed to have no analogues in the world. The presentation of the center’s project took place on June 10, and the Donors’ Forum has already managed to raise 2.1 million euros for its construction.
In the Center with an area of 37 thousand square meters, 50 thousand Ukrainians will be provided assistance annually. First of all, we are talking about people who were physically and mentally injured as a result of Russia’s military aggression against Ukraine.
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As the Minister of Health of Ukraine Viktor Lyashko noted during the presentation of the project, rehabilitation centers and departments in the country are operating, but this is not enough. Some of the victims of the war are being sent abroad.
«Ukraine has already sent 395 citizens abroad, 80 are in the process of sending. In total, the Ministry of Health has 520 requests for evacuation abroad. And these are not final figures, there can be more of these people every time,» – Viktor Lyashko says.
According to him, there are 2,236 rehabilitation specialists in Ukraine, but the need is currently 4,554 specialists. Approximately the same situation with rehabilitation beds. There are currently more than 5,000 of them, but at least 10,000 are needed.
«On the 104th day of the full-scale war, we lack about 4,000 rehabilitation specialists due to certain specifics, we also lack about 5,000 beds with high-tech equipment that will allow for rehabilitation, and this is neurorehabilitation. At the same time, we are talking about the rehabilitation of mental health and other types, which should also be,» – the head of the Ministry of Health explained. – «We must implement emerging technologies. This is a robotic prosthesis, and today two robotic prostheses have appeared in Lviv. It is also a 3D print, reconstructive surgery. It is these technologies that need to be embedded in the design and work in parallel with the world’s leading clinics so that our doctors can learn from the experience.»
According to Oleh Samchuk, director general of the First Medical Association in Lviv, the new rehabilitation center plans to open departments of reconstructive surgery, orthopedics, psychological, psychosocial and physical rehabilitation, as well as burn injuries, 3D printing of bone implants and a prosthesis workshop.
With regard to surgery, a separate area provides for reconstructive surgery and prosthetic surgery. The Center will not only install prostheses for Ukrainians affected by the war, but will also manufacture them here.
In particular, surgery will include reconstructive, plastic, replantation and regenerative care. It will be possible to transplant the face and limbs, prepare the stump and cult recipient, exoprosthetics.
The rehabilitation center will install bone bioimplants and exoskeletons, perform reconstructive operations on the limbs and hand microsurgery, endoprosthetics.
It’s unknown at this time when the National Rehabilitation Center will be built and when it will open. Work on the assistance is already underway. In particular, according to Oleg Samchuk, the hospital for prosthetic patients has already bought two limbs for 6 thousand dollars. They are also preparing five patients for bionic prosthetics together with the Americans and are completing preparations for the first operation in Ukraine to close massive soft tissue and bone defects with free full-layer valves.
The project will be audited by one of the leaders in the market of audit and consulting services in Ukraine, a member of the global network Baker Tilly International, which is one of the TOP 10 largest networks of accounting and consulting companies in the world Baker Tilly in Ukraine.
According to the city council, ATB, Symfony Solutions, Space Art, PZU Ukraine Group and the Swiss Embassy in Ukraine were among those who volunteered to support the project. Earlier, donations were also donated by the people of Taiwan.
It should be noted that today servicemen who were injured as a result of hostilities can be rehabilitated in the relevant institutions. Doctors and officials say that beds and specialists are needed for this. In particular, beds or entire departments operate in St. Panteleimon Hospital, St. Luke’s Hospital, Lviv Military Hospital, Regional Hospital for War Veterans and Repressed named after Yurii Lypa, as well as in hospitals and sanatoriums in Sosnivka, Truskavets, Drohobych. Read more about what kind of rehabilitation servicemen can receive in medical institutions in Lviv and the region, as well as what protection the state provides to soldiers.
By Olha Shveda, translated by Vitalii Holich
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