Ferrexpo for project «Prostheses for the Unbroken»
The Ferrexpo company calls on employees and partners to support the project "Prostheses for the Unbroken", aimed at helping Ukrainians who need prosthetics due to mine and explosion injuries.
War cripples Ukrainians every day. Severe mine blast injuries, gunshot wounds, burns. The enemy's weapons do not care who to kill. Missiles and bombs equally traumatize military and civilians, adults and children.
Ukrainian doctors heroically fight for every compatriot and bring back "from the other side" even the most severe patients. But not all of them manage to keep their limbs. Although the number of amputations during the war is a secret – because the enemy can calculate the number of wounded this way – there are hundreds of people. Hundreds of those whom Ukraine has to take care of.
"Since childhood, I dreamed of being a military man. For me, honour and duty are not just words," says 33-year-old Mykhailo Yurchuk. Paratrooper. He went to serve in 2016. In March 2022, his brigade was defending Izyum. A tank platoon of the enemy came at them. A shell hit the APC next to Mykhailo He ended up in the centre as he was running to save his comrades. The only thing he remembers is darkness.
When Mykhailo opened his eyes, his arm was gone, and his leg was torn. Under the heavy shelling, his comrades carried their friend for several kilometres to the place of evacuation, though he asked to leave him behind. And despite losing his limbs, Mykhailo decided to live to the fullest in gratitude for their feat.
In June, he was back on his feet again. Thanks to willpower and a modern prosthesis, Mykhailo gritting learned to walk. The next step was to have a prosthetic arm. But the prospect awaiting the man did not appeal to him.
Those who have lost an upper limb are usually fitted with hooks or cosmetic prostheses. The former is for work, the latter – so that people in the street won't stare, But the best solution for Mykhailo and others is a bionic arm. It costs 20 to 50 thousand euros. Of course, it will never replace the lost hand, but due to special sensors, it can reproduce its function better than any other available device. A person tenses a muscle on the amputated end – and the hand reacts.
Right now, Ukrainians can already get prostheses at home. Our doctors do it – for our people. Ukrainians for Ukrainians. The National Rehabilitation Center "Unbroken", based on the First Medical Union in Lviv, is a unique place where everyone, adult or child, who suffered from war, gets a chance to be saved and rehabilitated. A multidisciplinary team of surgeons, traumatologists, prosthetists, psychotherapists, and rehabilitation specialists works with each Ukrainian. The patient does not seek help abroad or in several different institutions, they get it in one centre. According to psychologists, adaptation and socialization are more accessible when the patient can communicate in the native language and stays near relatives.
To enable Ukrainians to recover from combat injuries as quickly as possible, the Unbroken Center has launched a prosthetics program. In addition to conventional prostheses, specialists at the Center began providing patients with bionic prostheses. Mykhailo Yurchuk received the first prosthesis. The bionic prosthesis was installed with the financial support of the IT company Symphony Solutions. This is a prosthesis of the Ukrainian manufacturer Esper Bionics. Now he is learning to use the prosthesis, he calls his "new hand" the ticket to a barrier-free life, and he is very sorry that for many Unbroken Ukrainians like him, this dream is still unrealizable.
Therefore, the National Rehabilitation Center "Unbroken" and the charitable platform Dobro.ua started the charity project "Prosthetics for the Unbroken" to make it come true. This project will provide at least 50 Ukrainians affected by the war with the world's best bionic prostheses. The amount: 3 million dollars. Anyone can join the project. Just click "support".
"Our mission and desire are to create the best for Ukrainians and to raise the general level of prosthetics in Ukraine, to set a bar below which it is impossible to fall. So that no one thinks or even assumes that it is possible to go somewhere abroad to get something better than in Ukraine", Nazar Bagnyuk, prosthetist of the National Rehabilitation Center "Unbroken".
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