"I want to shout to the whole world - to help us"

Unique clinic for the treatment of cancer patients has appeared in Lviv.

The medical staff evacuated and took out from daily shelling of Kramatorsk, equipment worth hundreds of millions of dollars.

In the previous story, we told how doctors from Donbas managed to do this. Today we will show the Kramatorsk oncology dispensary from the inside.

Good afternoon, this is our department, this is the room where our medical staff is located, who works here. The girls are interns who help us in the treatment of patients.

Now we will go through the wards, I will show you the conditions in which our patients are.

Our wards, where the patients undergoing treatment are located. There are several wards here, the conditions are also quite good. The conditions are quite good for rehabilitation. We are entering one of the offices now, where a mammologist is conducting an appointment.

In principle, the office is equipped with everything necessary. The ultrasound machine we brought.

For a trepan biopsy, the entire range of examinations that a patient needs to start treatment.

Here another office where an endocrinologist is conducting the appointment now. The office is also equipped with a rather good, expert-class ultrasound machine.

This is also our equipment - we brought it and use it here. It was probably three months ago. Before we came here.

We are going to our endoscopy room now , where the endoscopy is performed, also our equipment that we took out.

This is our endoscopy room, this is all our equipment that we brought. Endoscopic rack, the latest available today, our endoscopist doctor, who works on this equipment, will come.

In principle, he can tell in more detail what and how. The research itself is conducted here, and the equipment is sterilized in this room.

And preparation for the next examination. Here, please, is our doctor - an endoscopist. - Artem Oleksandrovych, please say a few words.

Our department has modern racks of the Olympus company, these are one of the latest racks, which have great advantages over old models of endoscopic racks. You are currently viewing the Olympus X-43 series.

What can be the advantages? Well, the first is the image itself. Here is the most modern matrix that transmits a clearer, improved image.

The second one has a double focus in its arsenal. That is, approximation.

You can consider some formation that is unclear.

And allows for a more targeted biopsy. They also have a narrow spectral light. It makes clear is there any pathological pattern on the walls of the mucous membrane.

We also have additional endoscopes. This is an ultra-thin gastroscope and an ultra-thin anoscope. For example, an ultra-thin gastroscope allows nasal examination.

It is more convenient than looking through a traditional endoscope. Because it has a thinner diameter of the working part of the endoscope.

It also helps to perform manipulations and endoscopic operations. For example, when de-shunting tumor processes of the alimentary tract.

As well as providing assistance to pediatric patients.

We are entering to our operating unit. Which we also rent from "Rodyna". This is the intensive care ward, one of the wards where patients stay immediately after surgery. They stay here for two or three days, then we transfer them to the fifth floor, to a large ward, where they continue to receive treatment and rehabilitation.

There are also good conditions here, there is a bathroom and a bed. This is the room of the doctor on duty who monitors postoperative patients.

That is, the doctor is nearby, the patient is nearby, if any help is needed. This is our head of the department of anesthesiology and resuscitation, Oleksandr Vitaliyovych.

The entire area is his here, he works here.

Well, now the holy of holies of any surgical department is the operating room.

There is an ordinary sterilizer, a high-temperature one. There is a low-temperature sterilizer here, in which equipment that cannot withstand high temperatures is sterilized.

The equipment is all the most modern. This is "Rodyna" equipment, was given to us for courtesy use.

This is our pre-operative room, where surgeons wash their hands and prepare for surgery.

Equipped with everything necessary. And our operating room, which is equipped in this way. This is the operating unit where we operate. C-arm, this is an X-ray machine.

Our stand is laparoscopic, on which we also work, perform laparoscopic operations. Including open ones. This is what our operating room looks like.

An anesthetic machine is one of expert class. And there at the end is a simpler anesthetic machine. In principle, the equipment is enough - just work and work.

The Kramatorsk Oncology Dispensary provides assistance to residents of Lviv and Western Ukraine.

But there is a special emphasis on the treatment of temporarily resettled persons.

Our next hero will tell about the first days of full-scale war, shelling and bombing,

and about what cancer patients in Ukraine face during the Russian military aggression.

We are Leonid Ivanovych Zubovskyi and Tetyana Fedosiivna Zubovskyi. Have lived together for 46 years.

All the time in Mykolaiv . We had an apartment, the country house, a car, a garage. We had all this. And we put our whole life in a suitcase and left to Lviv. Because we could not live in Mykolaiv.

When the war started, I did not believe that it could happen. The children told me  I should paking, and let's go either to Kyiv or further. We have two daughters. Adult daughters. 40 and 45 years old.

They said to go either to Kyiv or to Lviv. I didn't believe until the last one. My daughter called and started crying at four o'clock in the morning on February 24.

And she started telling me - mother, the war has started. I became very afraid for the child. Not for myself - and I didn't understand how and what.

And there is an airport not far from us. Military. Shelling has started on us. It was very scary. I cried until dinner - I didn't know what to do.

I couldn't believe the war had started. We went outside - people were all running, everyone was scared. There were long queues for food and water, very long queues at pharmacies.

We couldn't buy anything. We came home - what we had, we ate for a whole week. There was a great fear that you would go out and be fired upon.

We heard shelling very often. One shot was so strong I thought my heart stopped. And I'm not alive anymore. It was two blocks from our house.

We have such a store "Torba" there. There was such a gap - 5 meters by 15 meters. And all this land rose from this explosion. Everything was scattered there.

There were no casualties. Because it was at night. We lived in Mykolaiv for two months, it was very difficult for us. The children sent us help.

The windows of neighboring houses were shattered. It was just terrifying. The elevators did not work. We go to bed dressed.

And we were afraid whether we would get up or not. My husband slept in one room, and I slept in another. We covered the windows as much as we could.

Then, on March 29, the children took tickets for us, and we after all left for Lviv. We traveled by minibus. We did not travel by evacuation train.

We came to Lviv - and here life is completely different. I was afraid to go outside for a long time.

It seemed to me that there would be such shelling here as well. I walked bent over - I was very scared. It's a completely different life here, people greeted us very kindly. My husbend had a health problem. Maybe all this gave him health complication - this war finished him off. We started going to the hospital.

He was examined. About a month and a half. Then we were told the "sentence" - that he has oncology.

We are going for treatment now  - he has radiation. Six more treatments to go and he's on the pill.

He does not feel very well. It seems to me that this war "nailed" him to such a state,

That he sometimes does not understand what is being done and how it is being done.

It is very difficult for him - illness, and also this war.

I never thought that I would experience something like this in my life. My grandmom and mom told me  God forbid war. I didn't understand such a thing could be in our time. In the twenty-second year.

Our city Mykolaiv is very beautiful. City of ships. Everything has already been beaten there. Schools, hospitals, houses, shops. We have a shipbuilding institute.

It was completely smashed. Like this one was also in St. Petersburg. It is no longer there here. Innocent people were killed in Korabelny district. People stood at the bus stop - they were beaten. Five people were killed immediately, and twelve people were injured.

During this time have injured about 600 people in Mykolaiv. And one hundred and fifty killed. For what?

I'm afraid to wake up, I'm afraid to pick up the phone to check the news, what's going on there. I want to shout to the whole world to help us.

He was in a lot of pain. He has rectal cancer. He has very frequent diarrhea, a problem with the "toilet". He can't walk far. He go out- and immediately want to the toilet. He lost a lot of weight.

It started with the beginning of the war. Then we came here and went to the hospital on Simonenko Street. To a doctor - a proctologist. Passed all tests. The "material" was taken to the laboratory.

And they confirmed husbend has such a disease. We went to the proctologist here - at the Lviv Regional Oncology Dispensary.

A proctologist Mr. Moscow directed to the procedures. He said husbend should have radiation therapy. Did the tomography. Are doing radiation now.

Then, the doctor said, husbend will rest for two months, and after two months, another CT scan should be done.

This material was prepared and financed by The European School of Oncology (Milan, Italy) - https://www.eso.net/