Olena was helping to perform urgent emergency surgeries, and her thoughts involuntarily returned to the information that enemy tanks were already in her native Obolon. An intern, a paediatric surgeon at Okhmatdyt, went to work on the first day of the invasion and stayed in the hospital for two months.
They received waves of injured people with shrapnel wounds, gunshot wounds, mine-blast wounds, and polytrauma. All this required maximum dedication from the medical staff. They were on duty in shifts of 4 hours. Constant urgent surgeries, often with a countdown of hours and even minutes.
The youngest patient was 10 days old, the oldest was 84 years old. We also had to take care of the operated patients and make bandages. And it would be nice to have something to eat. After all, in the first days of the war, there was a shortage of not only medicines but even food. Later, volunteers and humanitarian aid solved this problem.
Now, Olena tells herself that she has no right to give up because her colleagues from their hospital are fighting at the front. They are an example of resilience and dedication for Olena.
