CLEVELAND — Burn care became an essential part of Ukrainian health care when Russia invaded their country. Now, Ukrainian doctors have come to Ohio to learn from doctors here.
MetroHealth hosted some surgeons and an anesthesiologist from Ukraine on Thursday. There were simulations and lectures that helped expand their knowledge of burn care. One person on the team teaching the Ukrainian physicians was registered nurse Andrew Neading. He expressed how excited they were to help.
“Our team couldn’t be happier to help aid these surgeons and providing them with some of the necessary knowledge and resources to better provide patients of their communities for both burn and traumatic injury,” he said.
Neading has made his career off of helping people and is excited to help people in another country. It is making him and the rest of his team appreciate what they do.
“It kind of reinvigorated our passion for health care to talk with these physicians,” he said.
The people that were the most thankful were the Ukrainians. One of the burn surgeons, Olena Svyridyuk, was able to communicate through her translator, Peter Voitsekhovsky.
“This is an invaluable experience, and as soon as I go back to Ukraine, come back to Ukraine, where war is now going on, I’ll be able to use things I learned here to treat both adults and children,” he said.
The Ukrainian physicians walked away from this experience with more knowledge, but also knowing that they have support from doctors across the globe.
