Tens of thousands have been badly hurt in the battle against Putin. For those with spinal injuries, one centre is offering a ‘small miracle’. Now that miracle needs to expand…
mytro Polovian laughed as one of his doctors tried to pot a ball but instead sent several ricocheting across the billiard cloth. Even playing from a wheelchair for the first time, Polovian looked set to win.darkened outside the window, for a brief moment the war seemed far away, the patient and medical team just another group of friends relaxing. But it was a carefully planned moment of happiness.
The centre is the only one in Ukraine dedicated to rehabilitating veterans with spinal injuries. Many arrive with their physical trauma compounded byPolovian, 25, worked on the railways until. Fighting outside Kherson in July, his unit was ambushed, he was taken prisoner by the Russians, and after an operation in Sevastopol spent three months in a hospital bed in the Crimean city of Simferopol.
In October he came home in a prisoner exchange, and at the end of December, after treatment at several different hospitals, he found his way to the rehabilitation clinic. A team of foreign experts helping advise and train the Ukrainian medical staff suggest that it should double again to serve 200 veterans. Canada, which has a similar-sized population to Ukraine, has about 1,000 beds in spinal rehabilitation units and it is a country at peace, said Andrei Krassioukov, professor of physical medicine and rehabilitation at the University of British Columbia, who is working at the clinic.
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