By Victor Duda
According to the publication, this figure is based on information from the government and medical institutions, but the actual figure can be higher, since the prosthetics process takes a long time. The Houp Foundation Kyiv Charitable Organization reported that 200,000 Ukrainians were seriously injured, and amputation was needed in 10% of cases.
According to The Wall Street Journal, these figures can be compared to the First World War, when 67 thousand inhabitants of Germany and 41,000 UK residents have lost their limbs. At the beginning of the war, the main causes of amputations were wounds during artillery and rocket attacks, but now many people are injured, undermining the replaced areas on the front line.
Thus, Konstantin Militsa from Zaporizhzhya region reported that 40-80% of patients receive to the hospitals of the region with injuries through which limbs are needed. The head of the global group of military surgeons Aaron Epstein, who teaches Ukrainian doctors, said that Western military medicine has not been faced with such a scale of injuries since the Second World War. The cost of prostheses can reach 50 thousand euros.
The Ukrainian authorities provide up to 20,000 euros for prosthetics for the military, and charity organizations help civilians. According to Ukrainian doctors, the health care system of Ukraine is now overloaded, so some patients have to wait for prosthetics sometimes for more than a year. Recall that 32-year-old scout Ivan Dziuba was captured healthy, and returned in less than two weeks-with amputated legs and without a finger on his hand.
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