Prostheses for Ukrainians who suffered from the war
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.
To enable Ukrainians 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.
Our goal is to provide the world's best bionic prostheses to at least fifty Ukrainians who suffered from the war.
"Since childhood I dreamed of being a military man, for me honor 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 center 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 kilometers to the place of evacuation, though he asked to leave him behind. And despite the loss of 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.
Those who have lost an upper limb are usually fitted with hooks or cosmetic prostheses. The former are for work, the latter – so that people in the street won't llstare But the best solution for Mykhailo and others like 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 will be able to reproduce its function better than any other available devices.
The National Rehabilitation Center "Unbroken" on the basis of 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. It is here that from now on Ukrainians will be fitted with modern prostheses and it is here that all the necessary rehabilitation will take place. We are opening a fundraiser for state-of-the-art bionic prostheses for Ukrainians affected by the war.
