The man received a severe bullet wound in his hand while performing a combat mission in the Kherson region. The complex reconstructive surgery was performed by surgeons of the NEZLAMNI National Rehabilitation Center.
Serhiy is 44. He comes from Kherson. In the first days of the full-scale war, he volunteered for the army. He wanted to protect his relatives who remained in Kherson. The man received a bullet wound in the hand in August during one of the battles. The bullet passed the exit. To stop the bleeding, he applied a pressure bandage. I spent three days with her. Already at that time, he stopped feeling the little finger and ring finger of his right hand. This is the result of nerve damage.
“There was heavy bleeding, but I simply couldn’t leave the battlefield,” Serhii recalls. He remained fighting until the Ukrainian military entered Kherson. Only after hugging his relatives, who had been under occupation for a long time, did he go to Lviv for treatment.
Serhiy specifically turned to the NEZLAMNI National Rehabilitation Center, because he had heard before that they help those who suffered from the war. And after a series of examinations and consultations, the doctors said that it is possible to restore the sensitivity of two fingers: a nerve transplant operation is required.
During the intervention, surgeons removed his own nerve from Serhiy’s hip and transplanted it to his arm. The operation went without complications. However, it is too early to talk about its final success, it will take several months for the nerve to take root and the sensitivity of the fingers to be restored.
The defender is optimistic. He says that after rehabilitation he will definitely return to his comrades in arms.
“The war is not over yet, I will continue to defend my Motherland,” he says.
Hundreds of people suffer every day due to Russian aggression, so in order to make their treatment and rehabilitation comfortable and accessible in Ukraine, a multidisciplinary team works with every Ukrainian in the National Rehabilitation Center UNBROKEN in Lviv, providing surgical, physical, psychological and psychosocial professional assistance. Thanks to the support of donors, a prosthetic workshop has already been opened and bionic prostheses are being installed.