"My nose and lip were completely missing. Everything here was taken off by a shell," says 41-year-old Ukrainian military soldier Pavlo Shcherbyna, with whom we are standing in the yard of the Polish hospital in the city of Czeladź.
He comes here for the fourth time - to restore the functionality of his face operation by operation.
"We are assembled like a constructor, like a puzzle. My nose is a piece of my head, legs and ears. And this is my jaw," he points to his scarred hand.
Here in Poland, since the beginning of the full-scale invasion of Russia into Ukraine, the fifth mission of the Canada Ukraine Surgical Aid Program (CUSAP) has taken place, within the framework of which Canadian plastic surgeons and trauma surgeons operate on wounded Ukrainian soldiers and Ukrainian civilians.
Canadian doctors use the latest operating technology - they transplant living tissues of the patient under a microscope to restore the functionality and sensitivity of the affected organ or part of the body.
In total, there have already been twelve such CUSAP missions - since 2014, when Canadian doctors came to Ukraine - to Kyiv, Lviv and Odesa.
It was after the Revolution of Dignity that the medical aid project of the Canadian-Ukrainian Foundation was founded with the desire to help its wounded participants (and later also those wounded in the anti-terrorist operation). Dozens of doctors from Canada are being selected to fly to another continent on a volunteer basis during their vacation from their main job to operate on Ukrainians.
At the same time, Canadians train Ukrainian plastic surgeons and traumatologists during missions in the operating rooms.
The mission is headed by a well-known Canadian plastic surgeon of Ukrainian origin, Dr. Oleh Antonyshyn.
More than 296 Ukrainians have already been operated on during the project of the Canadian-Ukrainian Foundation. Some patients are operated on 3-4 times. Special personalized implants are made for them.
For more details, see Mariana Pietsukh's report on hromadske.
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