Medical Center «Superhumans» offered Ukrainian fighters prosthetic limbs

Patients of the Superhuman Center undergoing treatment in Lviv, Ukraine Photo: Pavel Palamarchuk/Anadolu Agency via Getty Images

New medical facility in Ukraine offers members of the public the opportunity to buy prosthetic arms and legs for some of the approximately 12,000 victims of the war against Russia.

About 80% of militants who have lost limbs want to return to hostilities, the Telegraph was told.

The Superhuman Medical Center, which opened on April 14, offers reconstruction, rehabilitation and prosthetics for citizens and military personnel who were seriously injured in the war in Ukraine.

The institution is raising funds for prosthetics and should launch an online store where people can buy a leg or arm for a Ukrainian patient. All services are provided free of charge to those in need.

Andriy Stavnitser, co-founder of the Superhumans Center, told The Telegraph's Ukraine: The Latest Podcast that a third of the amputations treated will be reopened due to a lack of medical facilities on the front lines.

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“Many of these people have suffered severely and need to have their limbs amputated again,” Mr. Stavnitser said. proper amputations, and secondly, to install them for free, the best prostheses for arms and legs.

“Every third amputation has to be redone because of dirt causing infection, not enough fat around the wound, or because the scar is on the wrong side, making the prosthesis impossible,” said Mr. Stavnitser.The Superhumans initiative is backed by Ukraine's First Lady Olena Zelenska and Richard Branson.

Several amputees told The Telegraph they were offered treatment abroad but chose to stay in Ukraine.< /p> Departments of physical rehabilitation, psychological support, a laboratory for the manufacture and assembly of prostheses are available. Photo: Pavel Palamarchuk/Anadolu Agency via Getty Images

It is estimated that more than 12,000 people are in need of prostheses or reconstructive surgery as a result of Russia's illegal invasion.

< p>Dennis, a 24-year-old fighter, seriously wounded in Bakhmut, had to be carried in his arms. his colleague two kilometers away for evacuation due to the lack of doctors.

Singing the Ukrainian national anthem as he said goodbye to his friends, he was eventually evacuated and stabilized with prosthetics from the Superhumans.

Mr. Stavnitser said: “Many of these people want go back to the front lines because they have a huge sense of duty to their brothers and sisters in the army, because they were mostly evacuated by their friends, not the medics.

“The only way they can really repay is come back and fight alongside them.

“About 80 percent of the military who are our clients…want to return.”

Superhumans are asking doctors and reconstructive surgeons around the world to come to work in Ukraine to share their experience.