{"id":66191,"date":"2024-10-28T16:18:22","date_gmt":"2024-10-28T14:18:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/aslimnica.lv\/?page_id=66191"},"modified":"2024-10-28T16:18:22","modified_gmt":"2024-10-28T14:18:22","slug":"25-more-injured-ukrainians-arrive-to-the-east-hospital-totalling-more-than-360-since-the-outbreak-of-war","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/aslimnica.lv\/en\/25-more-injured-ukrainians-arrive-to-the-east-hospital-totalling-more-than-360-since-the-outbreak-of-war\/","title":{"rendered":"25\u00a0more injured Ukrainians arrive to the East Hospital, totalling more than 360 since the outbreak of war"},"content":{"rendered":"

Today, 24\u00a0October\u00a02024, marked the 19th arrival of an aid bus organised by the M-Help.com charity project, delivering Ukrainian soldiers and civilians severely injured in the war started by Russia to Riga East Clinical University Hospital (East Hospital). Today, the East Hospital admitted its 366th<\/sup> patient arriving from Ukraine. 25\u00a0injured individuals made the long journey to Latvia, including a thirteen-year-old child who will continue treatment at the Children\u2019s Clinical University Hospital.<\/strong><\/p>\n

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25\u00a0war victims have made the long journey to Latvia\u2019s largest hospital this time. As usual, patients were admitted to the East Hospital by a multi-disciplinary medical team comprised by various specialists and nursing staff from the Emergency Medicine and Patient Admission Clinic (EMPAC).<\/p>\n

All patients arriving from Ukraine to the East Hospital underwent a thorough health evaluation, including various laboratory tests. A minimum of 10\u00a0different samples were collected from each patient, and these samples were analysed in the East Hospital\u2019s Laboratory Service for at least 27\u00a0different parameters, including the possible presence of multidrug-resistant infections, known to rapidly emerge and spread under wartime conditions. Several injured patients underwent additional radiological examinations by specialists in the Emergency Radiology Department to determine the specifics of their injuries.<\/p>\n

One soldier with severe and complex war injuries will be treated in the Department of Hand and Plastic Surgery at the East Hospital, where he will undergo a series of complex and consecutive surgical procedures. Following these intricate and severe operations for war-related injuries, physiotherapists, occupational therapists, rehabilitation specialists, and functional experts will work with the injured.<\/p>\n

Meanwhile, other patients will go to other healthcare facilities in Latvia, depending on the nature of their injuries, after being examined at the EMPAC. The thirteen-year-old patient is expected to continue his treatment at the Children\u2019s Clinical University Hospital, eight patients will be transferred to the Vaivari National Rehabilitation Centre, while 15\u00a0patients will be transported for long-term rehabilitation to the Jaun\u0137emeri Rehabilitation Centre.<\/p>\n

Patients were admitted to the East Hospital by the following EMPAC specialists: <\/u><\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n