The CHU Saint-Pierre at the bedside of the “broken faces” in Ukraine

The hospital actively supports its counterpart in kyiv by organizing transfers of equipment intended for reconstructive surgery, which occupies a good part of the doctors on site.

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Deputy head of the company service

By Sandra Durieux

Published on 02/16/2023 at 15:02
Reading time: 4 mins

ABefore the war, we operated on road accident victims. Today it is our soldiers. This surgeon from hospital number 6 in Kiev thus sums up what his daily life has become since the outbreak of the war: operating to rebuild and repair soldiers, but also civilians, injured by shells and other mine fragments. “We are mainly faced with puncture wounds that reach the extremities of the body and the trunk, but also brain injuries linked to trauma and damage to the spinal cord”, says Yurii Antonenko, head of the hospital’s radiology department. Kiev No. 6.

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