Ukrainians save lives at the center of Unbroken

(from our special correspondent)

“Our main goal is the rehabilitation of people, as well as the production of prostheses directly in Ukraine,” Julija Vajda, assistant director of the Unbroken rehabilitation center, told Novinkám. According to her, the current task of the center is to become multifunctional so that it can offer patients all the necessary procedures so that they do not have to travel abroad. This means everything from surgeries to making prostheses.

Vajda further stated that the rehabilitation center currently accommodates 67 hospitalized patients, but in total provides its services to two hundred of them daily. “Others come from other departments or come only for procedures and then return home,” she specified.

The Unbroken Center employs a number of top experts, but it still needs to improve and, according to Vajda, it would welcome help from its Western allies in training its employees.

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“We need help with rehabilitation in several sectors, this is training for our physiotherapists, or with their cooperation with foreign partners. We have a lot of work to do every day, so we need to improve in everything,” said the assistant director.

Interviews with soldiers

News in the center interviewed two soldiers, Oleh and Vasyl, who were helped by this device – Vasyl, despite the amputation of both legs, was able to return to normal life as much as possible, and Oleh, despite persistent problems with his limb, returned to the front in the Mykolaiv region, where he left for just one day after the interview. At the time of publication of the article, they have been participating in the fight against the Russian occupiers for about two weeks.

“A kamikaze drone arrived, an FPV drone. He tore both of my legs off. They probably still wanted to finish it off and attacked me one more time. The second attack injured my right hand. I lay like this for about two or three hours before someone came to save me,” Vasyl, who fought near Verbova and Robotyne in the Zaporozhye region, described the day of his injury to Novinky.

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Oleh was luckier than Vasyl. He was “only” hit by mortar fire, which injured his sciatic nerve and leg.

“I was injured on the touchline during a mortar attack. I had an injured sciatic nerve. They sewed up my nerve, but my leg only works at fifty percent. I expected more from it,” Oleh told Novinkám.

However, both have different experiences with supply at the front. While Vasyl had nothing to complain about and had enough of everything, Oleh said that in the Mykolaiv region, the soldiers did not have food or drink, and at the same time there was no rotation, so he was at the front without any rest for a very long time. “When we were on the touchline, there was no spin. There was no support, no food,” Oleh said.