British doctors are helping train Ukrainian colleagues in ‘war time specialty’ techniques as they help to save life and limb
the team worked to train Ukrainian doctors in a combination of surgical techniques ranging from the “absolute highest end” of delicate and complex tissue transfer to “really simple quick operations that take 20-30 minutes” but can save limbs for civilians and soldiers suffering fromA patient with prosthetic leg walks on jogging machine as part of his rehabilitation in a hospital in Truskavets,...
“For not a lot of training and investment we are totally changing what they can do. There are people who have just watched from lectures and now can go away and do this,” he added. “That’s been really powerful,” he said. “Getting world-class opinions in seconds and it’s so accessible, so easy, so simple,” he added, citing an example from earlier that day in which a doctor in Ukraine had messaged about a severe lower-limb injury and received five different opinions within minutes.
The charity has performed more than 70 surgeries in the country in the past year on civilians and soldiers ranging from young children to elderly people. Those in the field are sometimes transported to hospitals on a medical evacuation train and can arrive with wounds contaminated by dirt or infections.
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