During her visit to Germany, First Lady of Ukraine Olena Zelenska, along with First Lady of Germany Elke Büdenbender and the Ministers of Health of Ukraine and Germany, visited the Bundeswehr Hospital in Berlin, one of five Bundeswehr Hospitals that are structurally part of the German Army Medical Service.
Between 2014 and 2022, more than 100 servicemen from Ukraine were treated in the Bundeswehr hospital. After 2022, the format of treatment was changed: medical care began to be provided in civilian hospitals. In complicated cases, these facilities transfer the wounded to the Bundeswehr hospital. There they receive treatment in general traumatology and orthopedics, including endoprosthetic replacement of shoulder, knee and foot joints and plastic surgery.
The First Ladies spoke with the Ukrainian warriors currently being treated in the hospital.
"I thank our defenders. And thank Germany, which treats them as its own defenders,” the wife of the President of Ukraine said.
She discussed with the First Lady of Germany further medical cooperation between the countries, including the success of the medical partnership – direct cooperation of clinics in Ukraine and other countries, launched at the Third Summit of First Ladies and Gentlemen in Kyiv. Olena Zelenska invited her colleague to this year's Summit.
The First Lady of Ukraine also took part in the signing of an agreement between France Expertise, a French agency for international cooperation, and the Superhumans charitable foundation. The signing took place in the presence of the Minister of Health of Ukraine, Viktor Liashko.
"In just one year of its existence, the Superhumans Center established in Lviv has become a leader in dealing with complex cases. In cooperation with French surgeons, more than 100 unique facial reconstructions have already been performed here and more than 600 prostheses have been installed. Each of these surgeries is about someone's life being made better,” the First Lady said.
She emphasized that the new agreement would allow to expand the project to the whole of Ukraine. Thus, the new center is planned to be established in Odesa at the Odesa National Medical University. Among other things, the center will train specialists in mine-blast trauma care.
“I thank the French Government and French doctors for helping us to save people. I am grateful to the Ukrainian doctors who are getting better and better at it," the First Lady concluded.