Ukrainian doctors train in Belgian hospitals to treat soldiers’ burns
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- Ukrainian doctors are visiting six burn centres in Belgium to learn how to treat severe injuries.
- They hope to use the training to establish a specialised burn centre in Ukraine for wounded soldiers.
- Antwerp hospital staff said medics often must treat a gunshot wound before evacuating a patient.
Ukrainian doctors are spending this week at six burn centres across Belgium, learning how to treat the severe burns suffered by soldiers.
The aim is to take that expertise back to Ukraine and establish a specialised burn centre there. The doctors want the facility to provide better care for wounded troops.
At Ziekenhuis aan de Stroom in Antwerp, staff described the difficult decisions that medical teams often face in Ukraine. “They often have to choose between treating a gunshot wound first and evacuating the patient,” the hospital said.
They often have to choose between treating a gunshot wound first and evacuating the patient.
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Originally published by VRT NWS in Dutch. Translated, summarized, and contextualized automatically by DistantNews, with a note on how the source frames the story. Not individually reviewed before publishing. How this works.
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