Oleh
Patient
"My daughter is coming tomorrow. She will see her father without a leg...”

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Oleh recently had his leg amputated.
The war in Ukraine is straining the healthcare system,
thus MSF is providing vital rehabilitation care for people like Oleh.

Oleksiy Taranenko,
MSF physiocal therapist
We are strengthening his arms, so that he can be more resilient.
We are teaching him how to walk with the walker.

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The impact of an amputation goes beyond the physical

Oleh
Patient
"In the evening, especially when it gets dark, then it hurts. Well, in a sense it hurts. [As if] there were a leg, trauma wounds, this is how I see it, this is it. It pulls, it stabs.

Inna Kravchenko, MSF psychologist
"The brain is thinking
how to get finger on finger. How to get it, right?

The brain gets used to a technique, but it's not enough, it needs other information to refocus, to distract itself from the pain. We use some other techniques."

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His wife stays with him at the hospital

Oleh's wife
“Under no circumstances will I leave my husband. No matter how hard it is.”
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