The first group of 15 Ukrainian wounded from the fighting in the east of the country will arrive in Portugal on Friday to begin recovery at a new rehabilitation center in Ourem, the responsible association said.
The center, located in Aldea Nova, municipality of Ouren, Santarem district, is an initiative of the Association of Ukrainian Refugees UAPT (known as HELP UA.PT), based on the restoration of an old seminary, with the support of several companies and civil society, and will be inaugurated on Saturday.
In a conversation with the Lusa agency, Angelo Neto, treasurer of the Ukrainian refugees UAPT, noted that the first group of 15 Ukrainian soldiers who arrived in Portugal are physically stabilized, but very weak psychologically.
“All of them have amputated limbs, but they are already stabilized, have already undergone surgery and already have temporary prostheses. Now they will undergo rehabilitation treatment to begin learning to walk and use prostheses,” said the head of the association.
“Clinically they are stabilized, but psychologically they are very weak,” said Angelo Neto.
The association’s treasurer, who spoke to Lusa from Kyiv, the capital of Ukraine, where he had arrived to accompany accompanying military personnel and doctors, explained that the group would leave Ukrainian territory on Thursday morning on a special bus towards the Ukrainian capital Warsaw. Poland.
From there they will travel to Lisbon on a scheduled TAP flight due to arrive on Friday, before being taken to the Aldea Nova rehabilitation centre.
“They go straight to the center because they come with the doctors who treated them after they were injured at the front. If we need any higher priority or additional technical inspections, then it is CUF in Santarem that will provide us with such support.” , showed the association’s treasurer.
According to Angelo Neto, the 15 wounded will be accompanied by four physiotherapists from the Ukrainian army, who will help translate with the help of bilingual physiotherapists provided by the association.
These Ukrainian military doctors will also provide “small training” to medical workers at the rehabilitation center “how to treat war injuries.”
“Because in Portugal we have nothing similar to this horror,” noted the leader of the organization of Ukrainian refugees UAPT.
Author: Lusa
Source: CM Jornal

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