“This is a chance to restore the arm”: Rinat Akhmetov Foundation helps treat a seriously injured resident of Myrnohrad

Oksana worked at a mine in Myrnohrad. She started her shift when the enemy shelling started. Doctors managed to save her arm, but her recovery is still ahead. Rinat Akhmetov Foundation helped in Oksana’s treatment by financing the materials needed to restore the bone.

“I am grateful to the Rinat Akhmetov Foundation for not refusing and helping me with the plate for the operation. I would not have been able to pay for it on my own, and this is an opportunity to continue treatment. My right arm is my main arm, and I can neither lift nor bend it”, says Oksana.

An explosion, dust, stones, pain and an arm hanging by a thread – this is how Oksana remembers the most terrifying moment in her life. When she heard that her arm would have to be amputated, she began to ask the doctors not to do it.

“The doctor didn’t say anything, he just gave me anaesthesia. And when I regained consciousness, the nurses said: “Feel, your arm is still there”,” Oksana recalls.

Oksana has many complex surgical interventions and evacuation to another city behind her. She is cautious about her future plans.
As part of the Rinat Akhmetov Foundation’s “Treatment and Rehabilitation for Wounded Adults” project, Rinat Akhmetov Foundation provides assistance to civilians in Ukraine who have suffered from shelling. The Foundation has already provided treatment and rehabilitation to over 11 thousand Ukrainians.

If you or someone you know needs help, please write to the Foundation’s messenger http://m.me/AkhmetovFDU or call the toll-free hotline 0 800 509 001 (the line is open from Monday to Friday).