A humanitarian team from Langford, B.C., has returned from a mission in western Ukraine where many people injured during the intense fighting in the east come for medical attention.
On the first day that the team was in the city of Lutsk, a public funeral procession for two fallen soldiers, killed while defending their country from the Russian invasion, was happening in a public square across from their hotel.In a hospital blocks away, the Langford team, consisting of humanitarian Bob Beckett and Sooke School District board chair Ravi Parmar, met with a group of soldiers who survived their injuries.
"They’re doing between 100 and 200 patients a week," said Beckett."Over 9,000 patients so far have been treated in this small regional hospital." One man told the team he was injured and nearly killed while fighting in Soledar in eastern Ukraine when a drone dropped a grenade into the trench he was taking cover in.Andri's injuries are more severe. He has lost a finger, has problems now with his hip and his left foot had to be amputated."He hopes to get a prosthetic foot to come back to the frontlines because he said there is a lot of work that has to be done here," said Andri, through the team's interpreter.
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