Overview
The Jewish Medical Center “JMC” provides all types of urgent and planned medical care to internally displaced persons from the territory of Ukraine, where active hostilities are taking place and there is a threat to life and security due to military aggression. Given the absence of proper medical care, various chronic diseases are sharply aggravated. Both adult patients and children received medical care.
For the period from March 12 to the present, the Jewish Medical Center “JMC” has provided medical care to the population of Ukraine regardless of national and religious affiliation:
Since March 2022, JMC has been helping internally displaced persons who are fleeing the most affected areas: at the medical center itself 9,126 individual medical services were provided to 963 people.
In shelters for internally displaced persons, JMC provided 22,000 medical services assisting 5,300 people.
In addition, JMC provides all types of emergency and planned assistance to the local population.
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Patient Svetlana Blyakhman from Mariupol (pictured)
In early March, when a woman went outside to walk her dog, she came under fire. [Grab your reader’s attention with a great quote from the document or use this space to emphasize a key point. To place this text box anywhere on the page, just drag it.]
She sustained serious multiple mine-explosives shrapnel wounds of the lower extremities as a result of artillery shelling. She was taken to the Mariupol hospital, where she received primary care – traumatic amputation of the foot, removed metal fragments and the stump of the left foot was formed.
JMC performed dressings and staged surgical treatment of wounds of the lower extremities, degranulation and therapy in order to prevent purulent-septic changes. After the patient was stabilized and her condition allowed, Svetlana was evacuated for further treatment and rehabilitation in Israel.
Surgery
One of the most sought-after medical services is surgery. JMC is treating people who were injured in the bombing attacks. For people who have suffered from hostilities, reconstructive surgical interventions are performed by orthopedic traumatologists at the JMC clinic. Surgical interventions are performed under various types of anesthesia: general, spinal, epidural, local for children and adult patients. In addition, they treat a large number of pathologies among people of different ages in extreme conditions
Consultative outpatient reception is carried out by children’s specialists (998 consultations), such as pediatric cardiologist, pediatric neurologist, pediatric surgeon, pediatrician. Consultations of a narrow specialization are held for adult patients (2865 consultations): orthopedics, traumatology, oncology, gynecology, urology, cardiology, vascular surgery, etc.
One of the most important areas of the work of the JMC is surgical specialties. For internally displaced persons, the JMC clinic performed 395 surgical interventions for children and adult patients: in the field of abdominal surgery, oncology, vascular surgery, gynecology, urology, proctology, eye microsurgery, maxillofacial surgery, traumatology and orthopedics, hand microsurgery and other areas.
Among the most frequently performed surgical operations: hernia repair; cysts and neoplasms of the liver and other abdominal organs; various types of soft tissue plasty; operations in the field of vascular surgery of the lower and upper extremities; oncological surgical interventions on soft tissues; operative surgical urology, gynecology and proctology.
Diagnostics and testing
For internally displaced persons, instrumental diagnostic studies are carried out (2156 studies): 265 ultrasound of the abdominal cavity, 352 echocardiography of the heart, 159 ultrasound of the thyroid gland, 236 electroencephalograms, 98 colonoscopies, 112 gastroscopy, 569 ECG and 365 radiographs.
JMC also conducts laboratory tests for internally displaced persons (to date 3,875 tests have been carried out) in the main areas of laboratory diagnostics: biochemical tests (1,095 tests); clinical laboratory studies (1,536 studies), enzyme immunoassays (716 studies), studies in the field of clinical cytology (528 patients were examined). For laboratory diagnostics, the JMC clinic is equipped with a modern laboratory, which is operated by a team of specialists in the field of laboratory diagnostics.
Outpatient treatment
Also, one of the most demanded was the provision of cancer care to refugees. Course chemotherapy is carried out for patients with oncological pathology (more than 70 chemotherapy treatments).
They also perform a large number of outpatient procedures in various fields of practical medicine: otorhinolaryngology (1,245 diagnostic and treatment procedures on the organs of the external and middle ear, nose, oral cavity and pharynx); ophthalmology (895 microsurgical interventions on the auxiliary apparatus of the eye), etc.
Doctors and nurses of the JMC were constantly coming to evacuation shelters for refugees staying temporarily in the school, boarding homes, assisted leaving facility for the elderly and other institutions in Dnipro to monitor and provide emergency medical help and examinations to thousands who later got evacuated to Europe and Israel.
In addition, large numbers of medications are provided for the needy.
A family medicine department was opened a month ago. At the moment, active work is underway on the construction.
