Nick Dechev was in Ukraine setting up one of two prosthetic clinics he hoped would soon help the growing number of amputees in the country.
Prosthetist Dr. Volodymyr Danyliuk fits a child for a prosthesis at the Vinnytsia State Experimental Prosthetic and Orthopedic Enterprise in Vinnytsia, Ukraine in a handout photo. The boy is one of five people in Ukraine who received prosthetics provided by the British Columbia-based Victoria Hand Project.
What surprised him the most was how the people working alongside him in the clinic who heard the alert, glanced at their phones and then carried on as if nothing had happened.“There was a risk, but I just felt that the probability is very small and then the importance of doing the work was so large.”, a non-profit organization based in B.C.’s capital that provides low-cost, fully functioning 3D-printed prosthetic arms to amputees in resource-poor countries.
After almost a year of fundraising and planning, Dechev travelled to partner sites in Ukraine, one in Lviv and one in the central city of Vinnytsia, where he set up equipment and demonstrated fittings, while providing five amputees with prosthetic arms. “Everything seemed normal” at first glance, he said, but the closer he looked, the more he noticed impacts of the war.
While the city is far from the war’s front line, Russian missiles did strike civilian buildings and a cultural centre in the city last July.Sign up for our newsletter to get breaking news and daily digests sent to your email.“I’m looking forward to working with him very closely because I respect them very much for doing that,” Sawycky said in an interview.
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