Germany is committed to providing medical assistance to Ukraine

Germany’s intention to assist Ukraine in providing medical assistance to the victims of the war, helping to build trauma centers for the wounded, donating prostheses and developing German doctors in the country, German Health Minister Karl Lauterbach announced.

“Ukraine needs humanitarian assistance as urgently as our military support,” Lauterbach said during a visit to Lviv, western Ukraine.

Medical assistance to be provided by Germany includes Berlin assistance in the supply of prostheses, the development of 200 doctors in Ukraine, training for the treatment of burns and the connection of some Ukrainian hospitals with the German telemedicine service, according to the German Minister of Health. .

Germany’s largest prosthetics company, Ottobock, is already in talks with the health ministry to help produce and place prostheses in mobile labs, as well as to train orthopedic specialists directly in Ukraine, according to a Ottobock spokesman.

“Ottobock has partners in Ukraine and continues to supply the country with products, while mobile laboratories could make it possible to supply the areas where the network has been destroyed due to the war,” the German company spokesman added.

According to the World Health Organization, there have been about 290 attacks on health care facilities since the beginning of the Russian invasion of Ukraine.

As for Germany, the government has provided about 100 million euros in medical aid to Ukraine so far, while the German healthcare sector has donated more than 100 million euros.

Source: Capital

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