Surrey North Delta Leader, January 06, 2015

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Tuesday January 6 2015

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Leader MISSION: RECONSTRUCTION ▶ CANADIAN SURGICAL TEAM HEALS WAR WOUNDS OF THE UKRAINIAN CONFLICT 14

Dr. Tara Stewart gets a hug from 35-year-old Ukrainian patient Roman Bertash the day after his surgery. Bertash – who lost an eye to a sniper’s bullet – was just one of 37 gravely injured patients treated by volunteer medical staff through the Canada Ukraine Foundation and Operation Rainbow Medical Mission in Ukraine in November. PHOTO SUBMITTED

BOAZ JOSEPH

July 17, 2014 was a bad day for Andre Usach. The 33-year-old soldier was hit by a shell while in a bunker at the airport in the eastern Ukrainian city of Luhansk. Badly wounded and knocked out, he could not be safely evacuated and had to remain

there for two weeks, unconscious, without any medical treatment more complex than tourniquets provided by his comrades. Dr. Oleh Antonyshyn, who would meet the soldier months later, fills in the details: “When they did finally get him to a medical facility, his wounds were infected, resulting in the amputation of his leg. He (had) a very significant injury to his arm –

he (couldn’t) use his arm – and in addition to that, he had a multi-fragment fracture of his jaw, with an open wound to his jaw, and all of that was infected as well. “When the primary physicians got a hold of him, they completed the amputation and treated his wounds, but he was still battered, with a major defect of the jaw – it was split in two, from left to right. He

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