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18-11-2023, 12:37 PM
A medics salvaging life from carnage Inside frontline Ukrainian field hospital – field hospital with badly wounded Ukrainian soldier had just arrived, hit with shrapnel from an enemy mortar. He looked more dead than alive. Dr's gave emergency transfusions of blood & plasma. As paramedic cut away his uniform. Another bandaged his left leg. A 3rd gave him a shot of fentanyl, a powerful painkiller. A heart monitor beeped while artillery whumped 5km away.
After 20 minutes, wounded man’s condition stabilised, he began to groan: a good sign. From the makeshift medical centre, he taken by ambulance to a fully equipped hospital. A perilous journey under threat from Russia. As Dr Denys Sholom, the head of medical team said he was used to daily carnage. He & his medical staff survive by guzzling energy drinks and puffing cigarettes during lulls in the fighting.
How did he cope with constant presence of death? “Devil knows. It’s OK,” he said. Ivan, a 30yr old doctor, said with little prospect conflict would stop. “I would like it to end. But I don’t think it’s going to happen.”
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2023/n...d-analysis
After 20 minutes, wounded man’s condition stabilised, he began to groan: a good sign. From the makeshift medical centre, he taken by ambulance to a fully equipped hospital. A perilous journey under threat from Russia. As Dr Denys Sholom, the head of medical team said he was used to daily carnage. He & his medical staff survive by guzzling energy drinks and puffing cigarettes during lulls in the fighting.
How did he cope with constant presence of death? “Devil knows. It’s OK,” he said. Ivan, a 30yr old doctor, said with little prospect conflict would stop. “I would like it to end. But I don’t think it’s going to happen.”
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2023/n...d-analysis
