Ukrainian nonprofit helps thousands of amputees injured in the war get artificial limbs

Posted by Valentine Belue on Saturday, July 13, 2024

Andrey Stavnitser:

So the biggest issue was to create the ecosystem to bring the expertise into the country, the expertise of, you know, prosthetics, and it's not only prosthetics, it's also, you know, psychological, physiological rehabilitation, its production of prosthetics, installation and maintenance has to come as a package because, you know, these people they need complex, holistic solutions.

Our main goal is to put them back to work to make them able to perform in the office or whatever they would be doing before. For example, we have a patient who is ice skating instructor. So, we have produced and ice skating prosthetics so that he can go back to training kids, you know, we're doing figure skating.

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