Doctors call for more equipment to be sent to a city where medical facilities are swamped by patients from across Ukraine
or Dr Dmytro*, who has worked as a cardiologist in Lviv for 13 years, few crosses are harder to bear than the death of a child – the loss of a patient whose life still lay before them – even when he knows there is nothing more he could have done.
The result is that hospitals in Lviv – the largest city in the region and its unofficial capital – are under increasing strain as they become medical hubs for the entire country.
We have the doctors to do three major operations a day, but we cannot do that because we only have one monitorAs medical departments shut down in the east, many doctors also moved west, bolstering the workforce in Lviv. But equipment was left behind or destroyed, and while Lviv’s hospitals have enough doctors to treat the new patients, in some cases they are finding themselves without the means to do so.
Children receiving treatment in the basement of Okhmatdyt Children’s Hospital, amid Russian attacks in Kyiv, Ukraine, 28 February, 2022.In Zoryana’s hospital, for example, there is only one monitor to measure the vital signs of patients in intensive-care units . “We have the doctors to do three major operations a day, but we cannot do that because we only have one monitor. So we are only doing one a day and then waiting until the child is quite stable to give that monitor to the next,” she says.
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