![]() ![]() Once you enter the next building, you’ll notice a machine immediately when you come in with a light above it. Thankfully, Six will grab a hold of you so you don’t fall.įrom here, jump to the beds that are hanging and start climbing up. ![]() With Six’s help, push them open, but there’s nothing on the other side. Sneak past the gated area until you reach the double doors at the end of the hallway. Continue moving through the hallway here and underneath the bed ahead of you. “But this is a different war from the one we have had up to now.After crawling through the window from outside, you’ll end up in the Hospital. “Doctors have experience of this kind of injury because we have been fighting since 2014,” Vasilivna said, on a tour of the hospital’s preparations. The hospital is ready many of its medics have some experience of war after eight years fighting Russian-backed separatist forces in the country’s east, but they are also aware that the scale of that conflict is dwarfed by the current attacks. “We have one and he has been practising all the time,” Vasilivna says. Its doors, nearly half a metre thick, can be operated by a single strong man. Surgeons are used to doing full operations, but now they have to just stabilise people and hope they recover for full surgery later.”Īll this when their own lives are on the line even maternity hospitals have not been spared bombing attacks, and cancer wards for children put under siege.Īpart from emptying beds and stocking up on supplies, tasks include preparing a bomb shelter that has its own power supply, ventilation and even makeshift operating theatres. “How do you deal with the fact that you don’t know how long it will last? You can’t use all your supplies on day one. ![]() This could go on for weeks, months, years. In the UK you have mass casualty events like a bus crash, but it would be one or two intense days handling patients. Sometimes surgery must be aimed simply at keeping people alive so they can move on to other victims, rather than treating every aspect of injuries. In Ukraine’s most intense conflict areas, doctors used to having the latest diagnostic tools such as magnetic resonance imaging and laboratories, have found themselves trying to treat patients under fire with no electricity and dwindling supplies of drugs.ĭuring a major battle, hospitals can be flooded with patients for days. In large cities there are several hospitals, some for civilians, others set up in a parallel military medical network.īut even for the most experienced medics, being on the front line can prove overwhelming. Tania Kotsiuk, one of the nurses treating injured civilians in Bila Tserkva, said: “We can’t leave because we are key workers, and we don’t want to leave because we are Ukrainians.” It has a lot of doctors and other medical staff, most of whom want to stay in their posts. The country is well prepared in some ways, she said. Here they are asking for knowledge – how to manage war wounded, how to manage when you get 100 patients at once, with heavy trauma injuries.” “They aren’t asking us for staff the way they were in Syria. Staff move patients when the air raid siren sounds – some patients prefer to stay on trolleys in corridors to minimise disruption. Natalie Roberts, a British doctor working for MSF in Ukraine, said: “Like everyone else, we can’t get in to besieged cities, but at least we can help prepare other places to handle these events, if and when gets to them. ![]() The charity Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF) is helping it and other clinics to get ready, bringing years of war zone experience, including areas in Syria that were also attacked by Russian airstrikes. “There is no escape, so we have no option except to be ready.” “We only take emergency patients and war injured – all scheduled operations have been cancelled since the start of the war,” she said. With 425 beds, it is one of the biggest in the Kyiv region, and effectively on standby. Nina Vasilivna, director of the hospital, says staff are getting ready for the war to arrive not just on their doorstep but in the hospital, if Russia renews its now-stalled assault on the capital. Non-emergency patients are discharged from Bila Tserkva’s hospital No2, which has received scanning equipment donated by University Hospitals of Leicester. ![]()
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